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Scalable video coding system

EP 1040668 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed June 17, 1999 and granted December 24, 2014. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 17, 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 December 17, 2024.
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FiledJune 17, 1999
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedDecember 24, 2014
Term endedJune 17, 2019
Application numberEP 99923815
Classification (CPC)H04N19/34 +2 more

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