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Circuit for ringing signal generation for subscriber circuits

EP 1017220 B1 · Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.

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  • Filed December 30, 1999 and granted May 2, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 30, 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 June 30, 2025.
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FiledDecember 30, 1999
PublishedJuly 5, 2000
GrantedMay 2, 2007
Term endedDecember 30, 2019
Application numberEP 99126234
Classification (CPC)H04M19/02

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