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Adhesive dressing

EP 0675702 B1 · Applicant: Smith & Nephew plc

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  • Filed December 22, 1993 and granted April 1, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 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 June 22, 2019.
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FiledDecember 22, 1993
PublishedOctober 11, 1995
GrantedApril 1, 1998
Term endedDecember 22, 2013
Application numberEP 94902929
Classification (CPC)A61F13/023

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1994199619982000200220042006200820102012Application filedDec 22, 1993PublishedOct 11, 1995Patent grantedApril 1, 1998Term endedDec 22, 2013

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