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Novel drug for relieving pain and promoting the removal of calculi in urolithiasis

EP 0872246 B1 · Applicant: KISSEI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.

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  • Filed November 29, 1996 and granted February 19, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 29, 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 May 29, 2022.
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FiledNovember 29, 1996
PublishedOctober 21, 1998
GrantedFebruary 19, 2003
Term endedNovember 29, 2016
Application numberEP 96939325
Classification (CPC)A61K31/00 +2 more

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