EP2651342 - FLEXIBLE SPINAL IMPLANT [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 20.01.2017 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 14.11.2018 [2018/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. 2500 Silveus Crossing Warsaw, IN 46582 / US | For all designated states Hynes, Richard A. 603 Atlantic Street Melbourne Beach FL 32951 / US | For all designated states Miller, Keith E. 7348 Bellville Drive Germantown, Tennessee 38138 / US | For all designated states Yu, Kidong 627 N 2nd Street Memphis, Tennessee 38107 / US | [2013/43] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
HYNES, Richard, A. 603 Atlantic Street Melbourne Beach, Florida 32951 / US | 02 /
MILLER, Keith, E. 7348 Bellville Drive Germantown, Tennessee 38138 / US | 03 /
YU, Kidong 627 N 2nd Street Memphis, Tennessee 38107 / US | [2013/43] | Representative(s) | Viering, Jentschura & Partner mbB Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Am Brauhaus 8 01099 Dresden / DE | [2016/11] |
Former [2013/43] | Viering, Jentschura & Partner Am Brauhaus 8 01099 Dresden / DE | Application number, filing date | 11848784.2 | 16.12.2011 | [2016/11] | WO2011US65505 | Priority number, date | US20100971861 | 17.12.2010 Original published format: US 971861 | [2013/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2012083173 | Date: | 21.06.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/25] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2651342 | Date: | 23.10.2013 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.06.2012 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2013/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2651342 | Date: | 16.03.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/11] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | KR | 27.12.2012 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.08.2013 | Classification | IPC: | A61F2/44, A61B17/70, A61F2/28 | [2013/43] | CPC: |
A61F2/4425 (EP,US);
A61F2/4465 (EP,US);
A61F2/447 (EP,US);
A61F2/4611 (EP,US);
A61F2002/2817 (EP,US);
A61F2002/2835 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30433 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30471 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30507 (EP,US);
A61F2002/3054 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30593 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30616 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30624 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30632 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30904 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2013/43] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | FLEXIBLES WIRBELSÄULENIMPLANTAT | [2013/43] | English: | FLEXIBLE SPINAL IMPLANT | [2013/43] | French: | IMPLANT SPINAL FLEXIBLE | [2013/43] | Entry into regional phase | 22.05.2013 | National basic fee paid | 22.05.2013 | Search fee paid | 22.05.2013 | Designation fee(s) paid | 22.05.2013 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 22.05.2013 | Examination requested [2013/43] | 28.02.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 09.09.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.01.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 06.01.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 06.01.2016 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 09.09.2015 | Opposition(s) | 19.12.2016 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/08] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.12.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.12.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.12.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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