EP2042104 - Surgical suturing instrument [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.08.2012 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 18.07.2014 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): HU | published on 20.08.2014 [2014/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Richard Wolf GmbH Pforzheimer Strasse 32 75438 Knittlingen / DE | [2009/14] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Prestel, Stephan Frühlingstrasse 25 76287 Rheinstetten-Mörsch / DE | 02 /
Moser, Florian, Dipl.-Ing. Humboldtweg 15 75015 Bretten / DE | 03 /
Weber, Rolf Mathildenweg 11 76703 Kraichtal / DE | [2009/14] | Representative(s) | Hemmer, Arnd, et al Patentanwälte Vollmann Hemmer Lindfeld Partnerschaft mbB Wallstrasse 33a 23560 Lübeck / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2011/43] | Hemmer, Arnd, et al Patentanwälte Vollmann & Hemmer Wallstrasse 33a 23560 Lübeck / DE | ||
Former [2009/14] | Hemmer, Arnd, et al Patentanwälte Vollmann & Hemmer Bei der Lohmühle 23 23554 Lübeck / DE | Application number, filing date | 07019216.6 | 29.09.2007 | [2009/14] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2042104 | Date: | 01.04.2009 | Language: | DE | [2009/14] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2042104 | Date: | 26.10.2011 | Language: | DE | [2011/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.05.2008 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/04 | [2009/14] | CPC: |
A61B17/0469 (EP,US);
A61B17/0482 (EP,US);
A61B17/0483 (EP,US);
A61B17/06066 (EP,US);
A61B2017/0023 (EP,US);
A61B2017/06042 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2918 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2925 (EP,US);
A61B2017/294 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2947 (EP,US)
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| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2009/14] | Title | German: | Chirurgisches Nahtinstrument | [2009/14] | English: | Surgical suturing instrument | [2009/14] | French: | Instrument de suture chirurgical | [2009/14] | Examination procedure | 01.07.2008 | Examination requested [2009/14] | 31.07.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 20.12.2008 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.05.2011 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.08.2011 | Fee for grant paid | 30.08.2011 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 31.07.2008 | Opposition(s) | 27.07.2012 | No opposition filed within time limit [2012/40] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 03.09.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.09.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 14.09.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | HU | 29.09.2007 | CY | 26.10.2011 | CZ | 26.10.2011 | DK | 26.10.2011 | EE | 26.10.2011 | FI | 26.10.2011 | IE | 26.10.2011 | LT | 26.10.2011 | LV | 26.10.2011 | MT | 26.10.2011 | PL | 26.10.2011 | RO | 26.10.2011 | SE | 26.10.2011 | SI | 26.10.2011 | SK | 26.10.2011 | TR | 26.10.2011 | BG | 26.01.2012 | GR | 27.01.2012 | IS | 26.02.2012 | PT | 27.02.2012 | [2014/34] |
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Former [2012/20] | LT | 26.10.2011 | Documents cited: | Search | [YA]US6723107 (SKIBA JEFFRY B [US], et al) [Y] 15 * column 3, line 13 - column 4, line 34 * * figures 15,16 * [A] 13,16; | [X]WO2004082725 (SURGICAL SOLUTIONS [US], et al) [X] 13 * page 12, paragraph 67 - page 13, paragraph 70 * * page 24, paragraph 105 ** figures 38,39 *; | [XY]US2004243135 (KOSEKI TOMOAKI [JP]) [X] 13,14 * page 2, paragraph 46 * * claims 2,4,5,7 * * figure 4 * [Y] 15; | [A]US2007118150 (WEBER ROBERT M [US]) [A] 1,13 * page 3, paragraphs 20-23 * * figures 1,2 *; | [A]US2007225735 (STONE KEVIN T [US], et al) [A] 1 * page 2, paragraph 25 - page 4, paragraph 47 * * figures 2A,3A,4,7B * |