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Method for analysis by light scattering

EP 0764844 B1 · Applicant: ARKRAY, Inc

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  • Filed September 19, 1996 and granted March 14, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 19, 2016.
  • 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 19, 2022.
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FiledSeptember 19, 1996
PublishedMarch 26, 1997
GrantedMarch 14, 2007
Term endedSeptember 19, 2016
Application numberEP 96115087
Classification (CPC)G01J3/4412

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