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Musical sound generating device and method, providing medium, and data recording medium

EP 1024475 B1 · Applicant: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

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  • Filed May 14, 1999 and granted October 26, 2011. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 14, 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 November 14, 2024.
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FiledMay 14, 1999
PublishedAugust 2, 2000
GrantedOctober 26, 2011
Term endedMay 14, 2019
Application numberEP 99919576
Classification (CPC)G10H7/02

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