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EP 1175237 B1 · Applicant: Magforce Applications GmbH

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  • Filed April 28, 2000 and granted September 24, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 28, 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 October 28, 2025.
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FiledApril 28, 2000
PublishedJanuary 30, 2002
GrantedSeptember 24, 2003
Term endedApril 28, 2020
Application numberEP 00941904
Classification (CPC)A61L31/18 +1 more

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