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Distinguishing received a-law and mu-law signals in a pcm modem

EP 1157475 B1 · Applicant: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.

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  • Filed January 18, 2000 and granted July 16, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 18, 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 July 18, 2025.
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FiledJanuary 18, 2000
PublishedNovember 28, 2001
GrantedJuly 16, 2008
Term endedJanuary 18, 2020
Application numberEP 00903326
Classification (CPC)H04J3/125 +2 more

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