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Device and method for generating optical signals by applying electrical potentials to sample liquids

EP 0658760 B1 · Applicant: Roche Diagnostics GmbH

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  • Filed December 10, 1994 and granted July 24, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 10, 2014.
  • 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 June 10, 2020.
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FiledDecember 10, 1994
PublishedJune 21, 1995
GrantedJuly 24, 2002
Term endedDecember 10, 2014
Application numberEP 94119574
Classification (CPC)G01N21/76 +2 more

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