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Automated quantification of dna strand breaks in intact cells

EP 0956367 B1 · Applicant: Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts

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  • Filed October 21, 1997 and granted May 14, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 21, 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 April 21, 2023.
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FiledOctober 21, 1997
PublishedNovember 17, 1999
GrantedMay 14, 2003
Term endedOctober 21, 2017
Application numberEP 97945779
Classification (CPC)C12Q1/6806

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