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Data transmission system and method

EP 1085698 B1 · Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.

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  • Filed March 7, 1995 and granted June 4, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 7, 2015.
  • 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 7, 2020.
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FiledMarch 7, 1995
PublishedMarch 21, 2001
GrantedJune 4, 2003
Term endedMarch 7, 2015
Application numberEP 00125162
Classification (CPC)H04L47/70 +2 more

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