Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Detection of breast metastases with a multiple marker assay

EP 1505159 B1 · Applicant: John Wayne Cancer Institute

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed March 13, 1996 and granted May 28, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 2016.
  • 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 September 13, 2021.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMarch 13, 1996
PublishedFebruary 9, 2005
GrantedMay 28, 2008
Term endedMarch 13, 2016
Application numberEP 04015872
Classification (CPC)C12Q1/6886

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedMarch 13, 1996PublishedFeb 9, 2005Patent grantedMay 28, 2008Term endedMarch 13, 2016

Sources & verification