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Audience measurement system for digital television

EP 1043853 B1 · Applicant: Nielsen Media Research, Inc.

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  • Filed July 9, 1998 and granted June 1, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 9, 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 January 9, 2024.
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FiledJuly 9, 1998
PublishedOctober 11, 2000
GrantedJune 1, 2005
Term endedJuly 9, 2018
Application numberEP 00114271
Classification (CPC)H04N7/165 +2 more

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