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Apparatus for automatic implementation of chemical or biological methods

EP 1032839 B1 · Applicant: MWG -Biotech AG

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  • Filed November 19, 1998 and granted May 9, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 19, 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 19, 2024.
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FiledNovember 19, 1998
PublishedSeptember 6, 2000
GrantedMay 9, 2001
Term endedNovember 19, 2018
Application numberEP 98963486
Classification (CPC)G01N35/0099

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