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Method and system for providing common coordination and administration of multiple snapshot providers

EP 1277114 B1 · Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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  • Filed June 6, 2000 and granted January 11, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 6, 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 December 6, 2025.
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FiledJune 6, 2000
PublishedJanuary 22, 2003
GrantedJanuary 11, 2006
Term endedJune 6, 2020
Application numberEP 00939613
Classification (CPC)G06F11/1451

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