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Monorail catheter with guidewire port marker

EP 0397357 B1 · Applicant: SCHNEIDER (USA) INC.

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  • Filed April 26, 1990 and granted June 9, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 26, 2010.
  • 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 October 26, 2015.
  • 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.
FiledApril 26, 1990
PublishedNovember 14, 1990
GrantedJune 9, 1993
Term endedApril 26, 2010
Application numberEP 90304585
Classification (CPC)A61M25/01

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1991199319951997199920012003200520072009Application filedApril 26, 1990PublishedNov 14, 1990Patent grantedJune 9, 1993Term endedApril 26, 2010

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