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An expandable stent

EP 0886501 B1 · Applicant: MED INSTITUTE, INC.

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  • Filed March 7, 1997 and granted September 24, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 7, 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 September 7, 2022.
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FiledMarch 7, 1997
PublishedSeptember 24, 2003
GrantedSeptember 24, 2003
Term endedMarch 7, 2017
Application numberEP 97914909
Classification (CPC)A61F2/90

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