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Positioning device for a part of the body for therapeutic treatment

EP 0560331 B1 · Applicant: Bodenseewerk Gerätetechnik GmbH

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  • Filed March 10, 1993 and granted February 17, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 10, 2013.
  • 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 September 10, 2018.
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FiledMarch 10, 1993
PublishedSeptember 15, 1993
GrantedFebruary 17, 1999
Term endedMarch 10, 2013
Application numberEP 93103855
Classification (CPC)A61B6/08 +2 more

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