Expired European patentEurope
Spray container for spraying medicinal liquid to mucous membrane of throat
EP 0661069 B1 · Applicant: Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd.
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- Filed December 23, 1994 and granted June 23, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 23, 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 23, 2020.
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FiledDecember 23, 1994
PublishedJuly 5, 1995
GrantedJune 23, 1999
Term endedDecember 23, 2014
Application numberEP 94309812
Classification (CPC)B05B1/14 +2 more
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