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A digital imaging system for assays in well plates, gels and blots

EP 1019705 A1 · Applicant: Imaging Research, Inc.

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  • Filed August 12, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 12, 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 12, 2023.
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FiledAugust 12, 1997
PublishedJuly 19, 2000
GrantedNever granted
Term endedAugust 12, 2017
Application numberEP 97940695
Classification (CPC)G02B13/22 +2 more

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