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Control of emission in a video display

EP 1098518 B1 · Applicant: Thomson Licensing

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  • Filed October 16, 2000 and granted July 2, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 16, 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 April 16, 2026.
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FiledOctober 16, 2000
PublishedMay 9, 2001
GrantedJuly 2, 2008
Term endedOctober 16, 2020
Application numberEP 00402855
Classification (CPC)H04N5/68 +2 more

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