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EP 1047005 B1 · Applicant: SONY DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

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  • Filed April 23, 1999 and granted November 9, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 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 October 23, 2024.
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FiledApril 23, 1999
PublishedOctober 25, 2000
GrantedNovember 9, 2005
Term endedApril 23, 2019
Application numberEP 99108082
Classification (CPC)G06F16/9535

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