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Method of switching background images in accordance with movement of characters, storage medium for storing programs, and video game device

EP 1048331 A2 · Applicant: Konami Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed April 26, 2000 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 26, 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 26, 2025.
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FiledApril 26, 2000
PublishedNovember 2, 2000
GrantedNever granted
Term endedApril 26, 2020
Application numberEP 00108861
Classification (CPC)A63F13/55 +2 more

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