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Communication methods and apparatus for groups of transceivers with status reporting command

EP 1035666 B1 · Applicant: Inmarsat Ltd.

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  • Filed November 12, 1999 and granted May 24, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 12, 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 May 12, 2025.
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FiledNovember 12, 1999
PublishedSeptember 13, 2000
GrantedMay 24, 2006
Term endedNovember 12, 2019
Application numberEP 99309029
Classification (CPC)H04B7/26 +2 more

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