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Subband encoding and decoding system for data compression and decompression

EP 1073209 B1 · Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed July 25, 2000 and granted September 28, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 25, 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 January 25, 2026.
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FiledJuly 25, 2000
PublishedJanuary 31, 2001
GrantedSeptember 28, 2005
Term endedJuly 25, 2020
Application numberEP 00115916
Classification (CPC)H04N19/63 +2 more

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