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Drug dispensing event detector

EP 0370599 B1 · Applicant: APREX CORPORATION

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  • Filed July 11, 1989 and granted October 5, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 11, 2009.
  • 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 January 11, 2015.
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FiledJuly 11, 1989
PublishedMay 30, 1990
GrantedOctober 5, 1994
Term endedJuly 11, 2009
Application numberEP 89307016
Classification (CPC)A61J7/0436

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1990199219941996199820002002200420062008Application filedJuly 11, 1989PublishedMay 30, 1990Patent grantedOct 5, 1994Term endedJuly 11, 2009

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