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Catheter balloon having raised radial segments

EP 1007134 B1 · Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION

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  • Filed August 5, 1997 and granted November 10, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 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 February 5, 2023.
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FiledAugust 5, 1997
PublishedJune 14, 2000
GrantedNovember 10, 2004
Term endedAugust 5, 2017
Application numberEP 97935280
Classification (CPC)A61M25/1002

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