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Method of automatically testing the hearing of, in particular, new-born babies and infants

EP 0869737 B1 · Applicant: Pilot Blankenfelde Medizinisch-Elektronische Geräte GmbH

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  • Filed December 19, 1996 and granted March 6, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 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 June 19, 2022.
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FiledDecember 19, 1996
PublishedOctober 14, 1998
GrantedMarch 6, 2002
Term endedDecember 19, 2016
Application numberEP 96946211
Classification (CPC)A61B5/12 +1 more

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