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Method of generating a public key in a secure digital communication system and implicit certificate

EP 1066699 B1 · Applicant: Certicom Corp.

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  • Filed March 23, 1999 and granted July 21, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 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 September 23, 2024.
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FiledMarch 23, 1999
PublishedJanuary 10, 2001
GrantedJuly 21, 2004
Term endedMarch 23, 2019
Application numberEP 99908723
Classification (CPC)H04L9/3263 +1 more

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