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Filter device and method for processing blood

EP 1080741 B1 · Applicant: ASAHI MEDICAL Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed May 13, 1999 and granted October 14, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 13, 2019.
  • 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 November 13, 2024.
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FiledMay 13, 1999
PublishedMarch 7, 2001
GrantedOctober 14, 2009
Term endedMay 13, 2019
Application numberEP 99919562
Classification (CPC)A61M1/3627

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