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Potassium channel openers

EP 1040097 B1 · Applicant: Abbott Laboratories

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  • Filed December 16, 1998 and granted April 14, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 16, 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 June 16, 2024.
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FiledDecember 16, 1998
PublishedOctober 4, 2000
GrantedApril 14, 2004
Term endedDecember 16, 2018
Application numberEP 98963249
Classification (CPC)A61P1/00 +2 more

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