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Syringe with a needle protector device

EP 0559753 B1 · Applicant: DENTOPTIC

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  • Filed November 25, 1991 and granted April 12, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 25, 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 May 25, 2017.
  • 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.
FiledNovember 25, 1991
PublishedSeptember 15, 1993
GrantedApril 12, 1995
Term endedNovember 25, 2011
Application numberEP 92900704
Classification (CPC)A61M5/3257

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1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedNov 25, 1991PublishedSep 15, 1993Patent grantedApril 12, 1995Term endedNov 25, 2011

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