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Production of horseshoe crab amebocytes in vitro

EP 0451217 A1 · Applicant: WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

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  • Filed December 26, 1989 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 26, 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 26, 2015.
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FiledDecember 26, 1989
PublishedOctober 16, 1991
GrantedNever granted
Term endedDecember 26, 2009
Application numberEP 90903993
Classification (CPC)C12N5/0601

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