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Method for inhibiting bone resorption

EP 1151752 A2 · Applicant: MERCK & CO. INC.

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  • Filed July 17, 1998 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 17, 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 January 17, 2024.
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FiledJuly 17, 1998
PublishedNovember 7, 2001
GrantedNever granted
Term endedJuly 17, 2018
Application numberEP 01201911
Classification (CPC)A61P19/00 +2 more

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