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Eight-bit microcontroller having a risc architecture

EP 1012735 B1 · Applicant: ATMEL CORPORATION

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  • Filed March 13, 1998 and granted May 14, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 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 September 13, 2023.
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FiledMarch 13, 1998
PublishedJune 28, 2000
GrantedMay 14, 2008
Term endedMarch 13, 2018
Application numberEP 98910407
Classification (CPC)G06F15/7814

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