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Magnetic resonance apparatus and methods

EP 0562707 B1 · Applicant: PICKER INTERNATIONAL, INC.

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  • Filed January 27, 1993 and granted May 20, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 27, 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 July 27, 2018.
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FiledJanuary 27, 1993
PublishedSeptember 29, 1993
GrantedMay 20, 1998
Term endedJanuary 27, 2013
Application numberEP 93300594
Classification (CPC)G01R33/385

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