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Checking the authenticity of a portable data carrier

EP 1039422 B1 · Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH

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  • Filed March 14, 2000 and granted June 25, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 14, 2020.
  • 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 14, 2025.
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FiledMarch 14, 2000
PublishedSeptember 27, 2000
GrantedJune 25, 2008
Term endedMarch 14, 2020
Application numberEP 00104583
Classification (CPC)G07F7/08 +1 more

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