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Thursday 13 May 2010

More on active implantable medical devices..

Thanks to Alice de Pastors for more information on the fate of SPC applications on Yttrium-90 Glass Microsperes (see our post on 15th April here).

Alice tells us that the Dutch SPC 300226 was granted but then lapsed for non payment of annual fees. In other EU countries there were refusals in Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, and surrender in France.

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