Expired European patentEurope
Products for inhibiting the adhesion, growth and/or survival of pathogens
EP 0478549 B1 · Applicant: BIOINVENT INTERNATIONAL AB
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- Filed February 16, 1990 and granted September 16, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 16, 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 August 16, 2015.
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FiledFebruary 16, 1990
PublishedApril 8, 1992
GrantedSeptember 16, 1998
Term endedFebruary 16, 2010
Application numberEP 90903978
Classification (CPC)C12P1/04 +2 more
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