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Method of adapting bus devices to a data transmission protocol used by a transmitting station

EP 1006691 B1 · Applicant: PEPPERL + FUCHS GMBH

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  • Filed October 13, 1999 and granted April 13, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 13, 2019.
  • 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 13, 2025.
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FiledOctober 13, 1999
PublishedJune 7, 2000
GrantedApril 13, 2005
Term endedOctober 13, 2019
Application numberEP 99120362
Classification (CPC)H04L12/40032

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