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Heart failure treatment method requiring set negative intrathoracic pressure

EP 0949941 A1 · Applicant: CPRX, INC.

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  • Filed November 12, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 12, 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 May 12, 2023.
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FiledNovember 12, 1997
PublishedOctober 20, 1999
GrantedNever granted
Term endedNovember 12, 2017
Application numberEP 97946595
Classification (CPC)A61M16/06 +2 more

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