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Protection switching trigger generation

EP 1010346 B1 · Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION

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  • Filed August 22, 1997 and granted October 15, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 22, 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 February 22, 2023.
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FiledAugust 22, 1997
PublishedJune 21, 2000
GrantedOctober 15, 2003
Term endedAugust 22, 2017
Application numberEP 97937374
Classification (CPC)H04Q11/0478

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