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Genetically engineered tumour cell lines and their use in the screening of antitumour-compositions

EP 0773293 B1 · Applicant: ASTA Medica Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed October 30, 1996 and granted December 3, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 30, 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 April 30, 2022.
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FiledOctober 30, 1996
PublishedMay 14, 1997
GrantedDecember 3, 2003
Term endedOctober 30, 2016
Application numberEP 96117448
Classification (CPC)C12Q1/42 +2 more

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