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Responsive polymer networks and methods of their use

EP 0832151 A2 · Applicant: Gel Sciences, Inc.

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  • Filed June 14, 1996 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 14, 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 December 14, 2021.
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FiledJune 14, 1996
PublishedApril 1, 1998
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJune 14, 2016
Application numberEP 96923310
Classification (CPC)A43B1/0054 +2 more

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