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Device for washing-out the bladder

EP 1049500 B1 · Applicant: Bieber Biomedical Gmbh

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  • Filed October 31, 1998 and granted May 21, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 31, 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 1, 2024.
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FiledOctober 31, 1998
PublishedNovember 8, 2000
GrantedMay 21, 2003
Term endedOctober 31, 2018
Application numberEP 98959819
Classification (CPC)A61M3/0262

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