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Methods for modifying and detecting the effects on the interaction of modified polypeptides and target substrates

EP 0555357 B1 · Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.

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  • Filed October 21, 1991 and granted July 3, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 21, 2011.
  • 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 April 21, 2017.
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FiledOctober 21, 1991
PublishedAugust 18, 1993
GrantedJuly 3, 2002
Term endedOctober 21, 2011
Application numberEP 91920565
Classification (CPC)C12N15/102

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