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EP3568095 - INTERNAL ANKLE FIXATION AND STABILIZATION SYSTEMS, FOOT SECUREMENT AND JIG DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Examination is in progress Status updated on 24.03.2023 Database last updated on 06.07.2024
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 18.10.2019
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 20.07.2018
Most recent event Tooltip	15.12.2023	New entry: Renewal fee paid
Applicant(s)	For all designated states DT Medtech, LLC 110 West Road Suite 227 Towson, Maryland 21204 / US
	[2019/47]
Inventor(s)	01 / HINTERMANN, Beat Arisdorferstrasse 38 CH-4410 Liestal / CH
	02 / HUXEL, Shawn 111 6th Avenue Seaside Park New Jersey 08752 / US
	[2019/47]
Representative(s)	Reed Smith LLP 112, avenue Kléber 75116 Paris / FR
	[N/P]
Former [2019/47]	Gurney, Steven Marks & Clerk LLP 62-68 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1LA / GB
Application number, filing date	18738990.3	12.01.2018
	[2019/47]
	WO2018US13658
Priority number, date	US201762445464P	12.01.2017 Original published format: US 201762445464 P
	[2019/47]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2018132764
	Date:	19.07.2018
	Language:	EN
	[2018/29]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3568095
	Date:	20.11.2019
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 19.07.2018 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2019/47]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	19.07.2018
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	23.09.2020
Classification	IPC:	A61B17/68, A61B17/72, A61F2/30, A61F2/42	[2019/47]
	CPC:	A61B17/1725 (EP); A61B17/7291 (EP,US); A61B17/1775 (EP); A61B17/7241 (EP,US); A61B17/725 (EP,US); A61B17/7283 (US); (+) A61B17/88 (US); A61B17/90 (US); A61B2017/681 (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 [2019/47]
Title	German:	INTERNE FUSSGELENKFIXIERUNGS- UND -STABILISIERUNGSSYSTEME, FUSSSICHERUNGS- UND -SPANNVORRICHTUNGEN UND ZUGEHÖRIGE VERFAHREN	[2019/47]
	English:	INTERNAL ANKLE FIXATION AND STABILIZATION SYSTEMS, FOOT SECUREMENT AND JIG DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS	[2019/47]
	French:	SYSTÈMES DE FIXATION ET DE STABILISATION DE CHEVILLE INTERNES, DISPOSITIFS DE FIXATION DE PIED ET DE GABARIT, ET PROCÉDÉS ASSOCIÉS	[2019/47]
Entry into regional phase	12.08.2019	National basic fee paid
	12.08.2019	Search fee paid
	12.08.2019	Designation fee(s) paid
	12.08.2019	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	12.08.2019	Examination requested [2019/47]
	23.04.2021	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	27.03.2023	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	21.07.2023	Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	03.02.2020	Renewal fee patent year 03
	13.01.2021	Renewal fee patent year 04
	16.12.2021	Renewal fee patent year 05
	29.11.2022	Renewal fee patent year 06
	14.12.2023	Renewal fee patent year 07
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	31.01.2020	03 M06 Fee paid on 03.02.2020
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Documents cited:	Search	[X]US2009149861 (BRODSKY JAMES WHITE [US], et al) [X] 1,2,4-10,14 * figures 1-5 * * paragraph [0049] - paragraph [0055] *;
		[A]WO2009153071 (TORNIER SA [FR], et al) [A] 1-11,14 * page 3, line 6 - line 15; figures 1-6 * * page 4, line 27 - line 37 * * page 7, line 4 - line 35 *;
		[A]US2010121325 (TYBER JEFF [US], et al) [A] 1-11,14 * paragraph [0047] - paragraph [0048]; figure 9 *;
		[X]US2011251614 (PIRAINO JASON A [US]) [X] 1,2,8-10,14 * figures 1,2,10 * * paragraph [0038] *;
		[A]US2012330313 (GRADY JOHN F [US], et al) [A] 1-11,14 * figures 1-4 ** paragraph [0061] *;
		[XY]WO2014057332 (VITTORE FRANCESCO [IT]) [X] 1,2,4-10,14 * page 2, line 7 - line 11; figures 1,7,10,11-14 * * page 4, line 3 - line 28 * [Y] 3;
		[Y]US2015012048 (HUEBNER RANDALL J [US], et al) [Y] 3 * figure 24 * * paragraph [0065] *
	International search	[A]US6579293 (CHANDRAN RAMA E [US]) [A] 1-5, 77-78 * ; entire document *;
		[XY]US2006200141 (JANNA SI [US], et al) [X] 1-2, 5/2 * ; abstract; figure 3A; paragraphs [0024]-[0026], [0042]-[0044], [0049], [0052], * [Y] 3-4, 5/3-5/4;
		[A]US2011282397 (RICHTER MARTINUS [DE], et al) [A] 1-5, 77-78* ; entire document *;
		[Y]US2012053639 (GRANT WILLIAM P [US]) [Y] 78 * ; figure 1; paragraph [0025] *;
		[Y]US2015012048 (HUEBNER RANDALL J [US], et al) [Y] 3-4, 5/3, 5/4 * ; figure 3; paragraphs [0034]-[0035], [0065], [0087] *;
		[A]US2016089245 (EARLY JOHN [US], et al) [A] 1-5, 77-78 * ; entire document *;
		[XY]US2016338842 (ADAMS SAMUEL [US]) [X] 77 * ; figures 7E, 11; paragraph [0044] * [Y] 78

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