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High-altitude airborne vehicle used as telecommunications system and method for positionning the vehicle

EP 1063165 B1 · Applicant: ALCATEL

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  • Filed June 19, 2000 and granted August 18, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 19, 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 December 19, 2025.
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FiledJune 19, 2000
PublishedDecember 27, 2000
GrantedAugust 18, 2004
Term endedJune 19, 2020
Application numberEP 00401738
Classification (CPC)B64D5/00 +1 more

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