EP2005896 - Surgical stapling and cutting instrument with improved closure system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.08.2011 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.10.2013 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): HU | published on 06.11.2013 [2013/45] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. 4545 Creek Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 / US | [2008/52] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Timm, Richard W. 3405 Monteith Avenue, No. 1 Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 / US | 02 /
Shelton, IV, Frederick E. P.O. Box 373 New Vienna, Ohio 45159 / US | 03 /
Timperman, Eugene L. 10639 Silverbrook Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45240 / US | 04 /
Fugikawa, Leslie M. 1000 Ligorio Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45218 / US | [2008/52] | Representative(s) | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen, et al Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2009/51] | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen, et al Carpmaels & Ransford 43-45 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | ||
Former [2008/52] | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen, et al Carpmaels & Ransford 43-45 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | Application number, filing date | 08252071.9 | 17.06.2008 | [2008/52] | Priority number, date | US20070820119 | 18.06.2007 Original published format: US 820119 | [2008/52] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2005896 | Date: | 24.12.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/52] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2005896 | Date: | 21.01.2009 | [2009/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2005896 | Date: | 06.10.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/40] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.12.2008 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/072 | [2008/52] | CPC: |
A61B17/07207 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00473 (EP,US);
A61B2017/0069 (EP,US);
A61B2017/07214 (EP,US);
A61B2017/07278 (EP,US);
A61B2017/07285 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2916 (EP,US);
A61B2017/292 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2927 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2933 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2934 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2936 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2937 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2939 (EP,US);
A61B2017/294 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2008/52] | Title | German: | Chirurgisches Klammer- und Schneidinstrument mit verbessertem Verschlusssystem | [2008/52] | English: | Surgical stapling and cutting instrument with improved closure system | [2008/52] | French: | Instrument d'agrafage chirurgical et de découpe avec un système de fermeture amélioré | [2008/52] | Examination procedure | 02.07.2009 | Examination requested [2009/33] | 01.09.2009 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 10.03.2010 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.04.2010 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.08.2010 | Fee for grant paid | 23.08.2010 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 07.07.2011 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 11.06.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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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 | AT | 06.10.2010 | BE | 06.10.2010 | CY | 06.10.2010 | CZ | 06.10.2010 | DK | 06.10.2010 | EE | 06.10.2010 | FI | 06.10.2010 | HR | 06.10.2010 | HU | 06.10.2010 | LT | 06.10.2010 | LV | 06.10.2010 | MT | 06.10.2010 | NL | 06.10.2010 | PL | 06.10.2010 | RO | 06.10.2010 | SE | 06.10.2010 | SI | 06.10.2010 | SK | 06.10.2010 | TR | 06.10.2010 | BG | 06.01.2011 | NO | 06.01.2011 | GR | 07.01.2011 | ES | 17.01.2011 | IS | 06.02.2011 | PT | 07.02.2011 | IE | 17.06.2011 | LU | 17.06.2011 | MC | 30.06.2011 | [2013/45] |
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PT | 07.02.2011 | Documents cited: | Search | [DXY]US2006011699 (OLSON LEE A [US], et al) [DX] 1 * figures 12,13 * [Y] 2,3,16; | [Y]EP1785097 (ETHICON ENDO SURGERY INC [US]) [Y] 2,3,16* paragraph [0068] * | by applicant | US4817643 | US6250532 | US6330965 | US2005006432 | US2006011699 | US2007179476 | US2007295780 |