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Method and apparatus for managing communications traffic

EP 1014747 B1 · Applicant: Nortel Networks Corporation

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  • Filed September 16, 1999 and granted November 16, 2011. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 16, 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 March 16, 2025.
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FiledSeptember 16, 1999
PublishedJune 28, 2000
GrantedNovember 16, 2011
Term endedSeptember 16, 2019
Application numberEP 99307336
Classification (CPC)H04L12/5602 +1 more

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