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Methods for operating a data bus system comprising resource control means and a transmitter station

EP 1703676 B1 · Applicant: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.

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  • Filed May 28, 1996 and granted January 23, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 28, 2016.
  • 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 November 28, 2021.
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FiledMay 28, 1996
PublishedSeptember 20, 2006
GrantedJanuary 23, 2008
Term endedMay 28, 2016
Application numberEP 06112461
Classification (CPC)H04L12/44 +2 more

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