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EP2233082
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| EP2233082 - Surgical stapler with universal articulation and tissue pre-clamp [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 07.07.2023 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.07.2023 | Patent maintained (B2 publication) | published on 09.08.2023 [2023/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Covidien LP 15 Hampshire Street Mansfield, MA 02048 / US | [2023/32] |
| Former [2012/52] | For all designated states Covidien LP 15 Hampshire Street Mansfield, MA 02048 / US | ||
| Former [2012/04] | For all designated states Tyco Healthcare Group LP Mailstop 8 N-1 555 Long Wharf Drive New Haven, CT 06511 / US | ||
| Former [2010/39] | For all designated states Tyco Healthcare Group LP 60 Middletown Avenue North Haven, CT 06473 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Olson, Lee Ann 125 South Elm Street Wallingford, CT 06492 / US | 02 /
Stearns, Ralph A. 38 South Road Bozrah, CT 06334 / US | 03 /
Emmons, Clifford L. 17 Morin Street Oakville, CT 06779 / US | 04 /
Roy, Phillip 263 Bittersweet Road Orange, CT 06477 / US | 05 /
Beardsley, John W. 14 Killen Road Wallingford, CT 06492 / US | 06 /
Racenet, David C. 157 Northfield Road Litchfield, CT 06759 / US | [2010/39] | Representative(s) | Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Postfach 330 920 80069 München / DE | [2023/32] |
| Former [2011/45] | Soames, Candida Jane, et al Edwards Wildman Innovations LLP 10 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EZ / GB | ||
| Former [2010/39] | Soames, Candida Jane Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Innovations LLP 10 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EZ / GB | Application number, filing date | 10006455.9 | 06.10.2003 | [2010/39] | Priority number, date | US20020416372P | 04.10.2002 Original published format: US 416372 P | [2010/39] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2233082 | Date: | 29.09.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/39] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2233082 | Date: | 15.02.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/07] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP2233082 | Date: | 09.08.2023 | Language: | EN | [2023/32] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.08.2010 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/072 | [2010/39] | CPC: |
A61B17/07207 (EP,US);
A61B17/068 (US);
A61B17/072 (US);
A61B2017/07214 (EP,US);
A61B2017/07278 (EP,US);
A61B2017/07285 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2927 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2929 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2932 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT [2023/32] |
| Former [2010/39] | DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT | Title | German: | Chirurgisches Klammergerät mit einer Gelenkkupplung und einer Klemmeinrichtung | [2010/39] | English: | Surgical stapler with universal articulation and tissue pre-clamp | [2010/39] | French: | Agrafeur chirurgical doté d'une articulation universelle et pré-clampage des tissus | [2010/39] | Examination procedure | 23.03.2011 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 24.03.2011 | Examination requested [2011/18] | 11.10.2011 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.01.2012 | Fee for grant paid | 04.01.2012 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP03774605.4 / EP1545334 | EP06013920.1 / EP1702568 | EP08001812.0 / EP1915955 | 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 (EP20030774605) is 30.11.2005 | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
14.11.2012
29.11.2012
ADMISSIBLE ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. 4545 Creek Road Cincinnati Ohio 45242-2839 / US Opponent's representative Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [2021/37] |
| Former [2012/51] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
14.11.2012
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. 4545 Creek Road Cincinnati Ohio 45242-2839 / US Opponent's representative Tunstall, Christopher Stephen Carpmaels & Ransford One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | 02.01.2013 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 27.06.2013 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 08.01.2015 | Date of oral proceedings | 03.03.2015 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 03.03.2015 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 20.10.2022 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 10.01.2023 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 11.04.2023 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 28.06.2023 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 09.04.2015 | Appeal received No. T0717/15 | 09.04.2015 | Statement of grounds filed | 20.10.2022 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 10.01.2023 | Despatch of the decision of the Board of Appeal | 20.10.2022 | Date of oral proceedings | Request for further processing for: | 27.07.2010 | Request for further processing filed | 27.07.2010 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 09.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 09.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 09.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 25.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 25.10.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | IT | 06.10.2013 | IE | 06.10.2021 | ES | 07.10.2021 | [2023/08] |
| Former [2022/48] | IT | 06.10.2013 | |
| IE | 06.10.2021 | ||
| Former [2014/38] | IT | 06.10.2013 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0593920 (UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORP [US]) [A] 1 * column 9, line 15 - column 11, line 18 * * figures 4,8-10 *; | [A]US5865361 (MILLIMAN KEITH L [US], et al) [A] 1 * column 11, line 15 - line 67 ** figures 19-24,58,59 * | by applicant | US6250532 | US6330965 | US20030479379 | Opposition | US5456401 | US5465895 | US5485952 | US5507426 | US5653374 | US5692668 | US5807393 | US5814055 | US5865361 | US5954259 | US2002143346 |