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Image communication device and method for communication terminal

EP 1048166 B1 · Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed October 12, 1999 and granted October 3, 2012. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 12, 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 April 12, 2025.
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FiledOctober 12, 1999
PublishedNovember 2, 2000
GrantedOctober 3, 2012
Term endedOctober 12, 2019
Application numberEP 99947985
Classification (CPC)H04N7/147

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