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Transfer-connect telephony services utilizing automated audio systems

EP 1040644 B1 · Applicant: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.

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  • Filed October 27, 1998 and granted October 11, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 27, 2018.
  • 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 April 27, 2024.
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FiledOctober 27, 1998
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedOctober 11, 2006
Term endedOctober 27, 2018
Application numberEP 98955144
Classification (CPC)H04M3/56 +2 more

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