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Benzophenoxazine dyes

EP 0885263 B1 · Applicant: Amersham Pharmacia Biotech UK Limited

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  • Filed February 5, 1997 and granted April 25, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 5, 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 August 5, 2022.
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FiledFebruary 5, 1997
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedApril 25, 2001
Term endedFebruary 5, 2017
Application numberEP 97902477
Classification (CPC)C07D265/34 +2 more

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