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Pharmaceutical compositions comprising lactobacilli suitable for trans-mucosal administration

EP 0872231 B1 · Applicant: DR. A. TOSI FARMACEUTICI S.R.L.

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  • Filed April 14, 1997 and granted September 4, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 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 October 14, 2022.
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FiledApril 14, 1997
PublishedOctober 21, 1998
GrantedSeptember 4, 2002
Term endedApril 14, 2017
Application numberEP 97830169
Classification (CPC)A61K9/0034 +2 more

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