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Overdrive system for an intra-aortic balloon pump

EP 0880974 B1 · Applicant: DATASCOPE INVESTMENT CORP.

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  • Filed May 26, 1998 and granted October 6, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 26, 2018.
  • 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 November 26, 2023.
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FiledMay 26, 1998
PublishedDecember 2, 1998
GrantedOctober 6, 2004
Term endedMay 26, 2018
Application numberEP 98109499
Classification (CPC)A61M60/497 +2 more

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