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Information processing apparatus and method, management apparatus and method, and providing medium

EP 1045321 A2 · Applicant: Sony Corporation

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  • Filed April 11, 2000 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 11, 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 October 11, 2025.
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FiledApril 11, 2000
PublishedOctober 18, 2000
GrantedNever granted
Term endedApril 11, 2020
Application numberEP 00303049
Classification (CPC)G06Q30/04

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