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Nerve deflecting conduit needle and method

EP 0957787 A1 · Applicant: Obenchain, Theodore G.

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  • Filed January 11, 1996 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 11, 2016.
  • 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 11, 2021.
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FiledJanuary 11, 1996
PublishedNovember 24, 1999
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJanuary 11, 2016
Application numberEP 96903447
Classification (CPC)A61B17/320016 +1 more

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