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Tissue graft

EP 1591078 B1 · Applicant: CryoLife, Inc.

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  • Filed January 29, 2001 and granted July 15, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 29, 2021.
  • 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 July 29, 2026.
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FiledJanuary 29, 2001
PublishedNovember 2, 2005
GrantedJuly 15, 2009
Term endedJanuary 29, 2021
Application numberEP 05076303
Classification (CPC)A61L31/005 +2 more

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