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Skin-adhering pharmaceutical preparation, in particular transdermal therapeutic system for the release of 17-beta-estradiol to the human organism

EP 0880366 B1 · Applicant: LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG

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  • Filed December 23, 1996 and granted September 12, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 23, 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 23, 2022.
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FiledDecember 23, 1996
PublishedDecember 2, 1998
GrantedSeptember 12, 2001
Term endedDecember 23, 2016
Application numberEP 96944648
Classification (CPC)A61P19/00 +2 more

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