Expired European patentEurope
Recording/reproducing apparatus having writing means for recording and/or reading means and detector means for reproducing an information signal in resp. from at least one track on a record carrier
EP 1190570 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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- Filed December 27, 2000 and granted July 14, 2010. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 27, 2020.
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FiledDecember 27, 2000
PublishedMarch 27, 2002
GrantedJuly 14, 2010
Term endedDecember 27, 2020
Application numberEP 00987449
Classification (CPC)H04N9/8042
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