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Optical transmitting apparatus, optical receiving apparatus, and optical transmitting-receiving system

EP 0876010 A2 · Applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed October 17, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 17, 2017.
  • 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 April 17, 2023.
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FiledOctober 17, 1997
PublishedNovember 4, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedOctober 17, 2017
Application numberEP 97118045
Classification (CPC)H04B10/07

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