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Data carrier having a controllable carrier-signal receiving-means configuration

EP 1177520 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed December 22, 2000 and granted April 22, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 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 June 22, 2026.
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FiledDecember 22, 2000
PublishedFebruary 6, 2002
GrantedApril 22, 2009
Term endedDecember 22, 2020
Application numberEP 00990021
Classification (CPC)G06K19/0723

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