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Screening assay for the identification of inhibitors of macrophage migration inhibitory factor

EP 0821551 B1 · Applicant: THE PICOWER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

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  • Filed February 14, 1997 and granted October 6, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 14, 2017.
  • 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 August 14, 2022.
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FiledFebruary 14, 1997
PublishedFebruary 4, 1998
GrantedOctober 6, 2004
Term endedFebruary 14, 2017
Application numberEP 97905997
Classification (CPC)A61P37/00 +2 more

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