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Microfluidic devices for the controlled manipulation of small volumes

EP 1202802 B1 · Applicant: UT-Battelle, LLC

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  • Filed August 10, 2000 and granted September 15, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 10, 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 February 10, 2026.
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FiledAugust 10, 2000
PublishedMay 8, 2002
GrantedSeptember 15, 2004
Term endedAugust 10, 2020
Application numberEP 00967377
Classification (CPC)F16K99/0001 +2 more

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