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Serum pretreatment in vitamin b 12? assay

EP 0346448 B1 · Applicant: MICROGENICS CORPORATION

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  • Filed November 10, 1988 and granted June 28, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 10, 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 May 10, 2014.
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FiledNovember 10, 1988
PublishedDecember 20, 1989
GrantedJune 28, 1995
Term endedNovember 10, 2008
Application numberEP 89901494
Classification (CPC)G01N33/82

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1989199119931995199719992001200320052007Application filedNov 10, 1988PublishedDec 20, 1989Patent grantedJune 28, 1995Term endedNov 10, 2008

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