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Equipment for clinical examination

EP 1010979 B1 · Applicant: Kyoto Daiichi Kagaku Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed June 11, 1998 and granted October 15, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 11, 2018.
  • 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 December 11, 2023.
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FiledJune 11, 1998
PublishedJune 21, 2000
GrantedOctober 15, 2003
Term endedJune 11, 2018
Application numberEP 98924575
Classification (CPC)G01N35/00029

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