Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine controlled-release formulations

EP 0284407 B1 · Applicant: THE WELLCOME FOUNDATION LIMITED

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 March 25, 1988 and granted May 29, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 25, 2008.
  • 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 September 25, 2013.
  • 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.
FiledMarch 25, 1988
PublishedSeptember 28, 1988
GrantedMay 29, 1991
Term endedMarch 25, 2008
Application numberEP 88302657
Classification (CPC)A61K31/70 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1989199119931995199719992001200320052007Application filedMarch 25, 1988PublishedSep 28, 1988Patent grantedMay 29, 1991Term endedMarch 25, 2008

Sources & verification