Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Universal player for compressed audio

EP 1837876 B1 · Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

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 May 1, 2000 and granted April 7, 2010. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 1, 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 November 1, 2025.
  • 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.
FiledMay 1, 2000
PublishedSeptember 26, 2007
GrantedApril 7, 2010
Term endedMay 1, 2020
Application numberEP 07013694
Classification (CPC)G11B20/00086 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedMay 1, 2000PublishedSep 26, 2007Patent grantedApril 7, 2010Term endedMay 1, 2020

Sources & verification