EP2685917 - SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH LOCKABLE ARTICULATING END EFFECTOR [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.07.2020 Database last updated on 06.07.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 09.07.2019 | ||
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 14.02.2019 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 13.07.2018 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. 4545 Creek Road Cincinnati, OH 45242 / US | [2014/04] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SCHUCKMANN, John, C. 7348 Timberknoll Drive Cincinnati, OH 45242 / US | 02 /
SWAYZE, Jeffrey, S. 7047 Birchley Drive Hamilton, OH 45011 / US | 03 /
SCHEIB, Charles, J. 11329 Donwiddle Drive Loveland, OH 45140 / US | [2014/04] | Representative(s) | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [2014/04] | Application number, filing date | 12711722.4 | 13.03.2012 | [2019/33] | WO2012US28894 | Priority number, date | US201113048566 | 15.03.2011 Original published format: US201113048566 | [2014/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2012125618 | Date: | 20.09.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/38] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2685917 | Date: | 22.01.2014 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 20.09.2012 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2014/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2685917 | Date: | 14.08.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/33] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 20.09.2012 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/29, A61B17/072 | [2014/04] | CPC: |
A61B17/07207 (EP,US);
A61B2017/291 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2927 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2929 (EP,US);
A61B2017/293 (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 [2014/04] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | CHIRURGISCHE INSTRUMENTE MIT GELENKIGEM BLOCKIERBAREM ENDEFFEKTOR | [2014/04] | English: | SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH LOCKABLE ARTICULATING END EFFECTOR | [2014/04] | French: | INSTRUMENTS CHIRURGICAUX À EFFECTEUR TERMINAL D'ARTICULATION POUVANT ÊTRE VERROUILLÉ | [2014/04] | Entry into regional phase | 15.10.2013 | National basic fee paid | 15.10.2013 | Designation fee(s) paid | 15.10.2013 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 15.10.2013 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 15.10.2013 | Examination requested [2014/04] | 16.07.2018 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.11.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.02.2019 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.06.2019 | Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO | 25.06.2019 | Fee for grant paid | 25.06.2019 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 09.07.2019 | Information about intention to grant a patent | 09.07.2019 | 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 16.07.2018 | Opposition(s) | 03.06.2020 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/32] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.03.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.03.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.03.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 10.03.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 13.03.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.03.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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