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Nutritional and therapeutic uses of 3-hydroxyalkanoate oligomers

EP 1098655 B1 · Applicant: Metabolix, Inc.

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  • Filed July 22, 1999 and granted November 24, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 22, 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 January 22, 2025.
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FiledJuly 22, 1999
PublishedMay 16, 2001
GrantedNovember 24, 2004
Term endedJuly 22, 2019
Application numberEP 99935846
Classification (CPC)A61P7/00 +2 more

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