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Apparatus for placing needle protection sheaths onto medical syringes

EP 1095669 B1 · Applicant: Arzneimittel GmbH Apotheker Vetter & Co. Ravensburg

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  • Filed October 9, 2000 and granted June 23, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 9, 2020.
  • 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 April 9, 2026.
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FiledOctober 9, 2000
PublishedMay 2, 2001
GrantedJune 23, 2004
Term endedOctober 9, 2020
Application numberEP 00121943
Classification (CPC)B23P19/00 +1 more

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