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Exoprosthesis for the human knee-joint

EP 1032333 B1 · Applicant: HJS Gelenk System GmbH

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  • Filed November 17, 1998 and granted September 15, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 17, 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 May 17, 2024.
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FiledNovember 17, 1998
PublishedSeptember 6, 2000
GrantedSeptember 15, 2004
Term endedNovember 17, 2018
Application numberEP 98965576
Classification (CPC)A61F5/0123

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