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Use of anti-embryonic hemoglobin antibodies to identify fetal cells

EP 1007965 B1 · Applicant: Applied Imaging, Inc.

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  • Filed October 20, 1997 and granted March 2, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 20, 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 20, 2023.
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FiledOctober 20, 1997
PublishedJune 14, 2000
GrantedMarch 2, 2005
Term endedOctober 20, 2017
Application numberEP 97911938
Classification (CPC)G01N33/689 +1 more

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