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Anatomical simulator for videoendoscopic surgical training

EP 0870292 B1 · Applicant: Simulab Corporation

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  • Filed June 4, 1996 and granted July 30, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 4, 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 4, 2021.
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FiledJune 4, 1996
PublishedOctober 14, 1998
GrantedJuly 30, 2008
Term endedJune 4, 2016
Application numberEP 96918047
Classification (CPC)G09B23/28 +1 more

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