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EP 0872962 B1 · Applicant: NOKIA MOBILE PHONES LTD.

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  • Filed April 17, 1998 and granted October 25, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2018.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by October 17, 2023.
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FiledApril 17, 1998
PublishedOctober 21, 1998
GrantedOctober 25, 2006
Term endedApril 17, 2018
Application numberEP 98302979
Classification (CPC)H04B3/23

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