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Fibrin sponge

EP 1017429 B1 · Applicant: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (a Delaware corporation)

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  • Filed September 18, 1998 and granted August 27, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 18, 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 March 18, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 18, 1998
PublishedJuly 12, 2000
GrantedAugust 27, 2003
Term endedSeptember 18, 2018
Application numberEP 98950061
Classification (CPC)A61L26/0042 +2 more

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