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Body-fluid inspection device

EP 1609417 B1 · Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed January 22, 1999 and granted September 2, 2015. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 22, 2019.
  • 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 22, 2024.
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FiledJanuary 22, 1999
PublishedDecember 28, 2005
GrantedSeptember 2, 2015
Term endedJanuary 22, 2019
Application numberEP 05020687
Classification (CPC)A61B5/157 +2 more

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