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Diphenyl stilbenes as prodrugs to cox-2 inhibitors

EP 0882015 B1 · Applicant: Merck Frosst Canada & Co.

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  • Filed January 29, 1997 and granted December 27, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 29, 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 July 29, 2022.
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FiledJanuary 29, 1997
PublishedDecember 9, 1998
GrantedDecember 27, 2000
Term endedJanuary 29, 2017
Application numberEP 97900915
Classification (CPC)C07C317/24 +2 more

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