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Method of detecting hematopoietic progenitor cells

EP 0867720 B1 · Applicant: TOA MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

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  • Filed March 18, 1998 and granted July 10, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 18, 2018.
  • 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 September 18, 2023.
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FiledMarch 18, 1998
PublishedSeptember 30, 1998
GrantedJuly 10, 2002
Term endedMarch 18, 2018
Application numberEP 98104913
Classification (CPC)G01N33/5094

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