Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Disc drive apparatus, and method for recognizing cd and dvd

EP 1700301 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed August 18, 2004 and granted January 21, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 18, 2024.
  • Supplementary protection certificates extend only medicine and crop-protection patents, and it isn't classified as either.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledAugust 18, 2004
PublishedSeptember 13, 2006
GrantedJanuary 21, 2009
Term endedAugust 18, 2024
Application numberEP 04744797
Classification (CPC)G11B19/12

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2005200720092011201320152017201920212023Application filedAug 18, 2004PublishedSep 13, 2006Patent grantedJan 21, 2009Term endedAug 18, 2024

Sources & verification