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System and method for improving sample concentration in capillary electrophoresis

EP 0560974 B1 · Applicant: VARIAN ASSOCIATES, INC.

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  • Filed September 30, 1992 and granted January 29, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 2012.
  • 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 March 30, 2018.
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FiledSeptember 30, 1992
PublishedSeptember 22, 1993
GrantedJanuary 29, 1997
Term endedSeptember 30, 2012
Application numberEP 92921871
Classification (CPC)G01N27/44773

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