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Test strip for analysing a fluid-sample using a specific binding reaction between two bioaffinity binding partners, and a test method therefor

EP 0374684 B1 · Applicant: BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM GMBH

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  • Filed December 12, 1989 and granted June 30, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 12, 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 June 12, 2015.
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FiledDecember 12, 1989
PublishedJune 27, 1990
GrantedJune 30, 1993
Term endedDecember 12, 2009
Application numberEP 89122878
Classification (CPC)G01N33/54388

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