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Kits and methods for the detection of target nucleic acids with help of tag nucleic acids

EP 1721993 A2 · Applicant: Affymetrix, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation)

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  • Filed April 3, 1997 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 3, 2017.
  • 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 3, 2022.
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FiledApril 3, 1997
PublishedNovember 15, 2006
GrantedNever granted
Term endedApril 3, 2017
Application numberEP 06076015
Classification (CPC)C12Q1/6837 +1 more

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