Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Set top box which enables television program displayed on a television set to be recorded by means of a video recorder

EP 1097576 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed April 27, 2000 and granted May 28, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 27, 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 27, 2025.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledApril 27, 2000
PublishedMay 9, 2001
GrantedMay 28, 2008
Term endedApril 27, 2020
Application numberEP 00929445
Classification (CPC)H04N5/76 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedApril 27, 2000PublishedMay 9, 2001Patent grantedMay 28, 2008Term endedApril 27, 2020

Sources & verification