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Method of, and system for, using a plurality of transmission lines and connection mode setting method

EP 1499069 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed October 25, 2000 and granted August 8, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 25, 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 25, 2026.
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FiledOctober 25, 2000
PublishedJanuary 19, 2005
GrantedAugust 8, 2007
Term endedOctober 25, 2020
Application numberEP 04025139
Classification (CPC)H04L12/2803 +2 more

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