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Medical instrument for removing tissue, bone cement and the like in the human or animal body

EP 1152699 B1 · Applicant: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG

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  • Filed December 15, 2000 and granted June 13, 2007. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 15, 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 June 15, 2026.
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FiledDecember 15, 2000
PublishedNovember 14, 2001
GrantedJune 13, 2007
Term endedDecember 15, 2020
Application numberEP 00990775
Classification (CPC)A61M1/89 +2 more

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