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A device for fastening in the cranial bone and a kit comprising such device

EP 1018935 B1 · Applicant: Sloth, Erik

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  • Filed September 25, 1998 and granted March 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 25, 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 25, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 25, 1998
PublishedJuly 19, 2000
GrantedMarch 26, 2003
Term endedSeptember 25, 2018
Application numberEP 98946262
Classification (CPC)A61B5/6864 +2 more

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