EP0033548 - Surgical stapling instrument [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 20.03.1987 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.03.1989 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.04.1989 [1989/17] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states United States Surgical Corporation 150 Glover Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06856 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1982/45] | For all designated states United States Surgical Corporation 150 Glover Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut 06856 / US | ||
Former [1981/32] | For all designated states United States Surgical Corporation 150 Glover Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06850 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Green, David Thomas 251 Wolfpit Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06851 / US | [1981/32] | Representative(s) | Lorenz, Eduard, et al Lorenz-Seidler-Gossel Widenmayerstrasse 23 80538 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1981/32] | Lorenz, Eduard Lorenz-Seidler-Gossel, et al Widenmayerstrasse 23 D-80538 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 81100826.7 | 05.02.1981 | [1981/32] | Priority number, date | US19800118664 | 05.02.1980 Original published format: US 118664 | [1981/32] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0033548 | Date: | 12.08.1981 | Language: | EN | [1981/32] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0033548 | Date: | 31.03.1982 | Language: | EN | [1982/13] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0033548 | Date: | 14.05.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/20] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.01.1982 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/10 | [1981/32] | CPC: |
A61B17/07207 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2825 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, FR, IT, LI, NL, SE [1981/32] | Title | German: | Instrument zum Anbringen von Wundklammern | [1981/32] | English: | Surgical stapling instrument | [1981/32] | French: | Appareil pour la pose d'agrafes chirurgicales | [1981/32] | Examination procedure | 26.08.1981 | Examination requested [1981/44] | 25.09.1984 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.01.1985 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.08.1985 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 15.11.1985 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.02.1986 | Fee for grant paid | 18.02.1986 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 17.02.1987 | No opposition filed within time limit [1987/19] | Request for further processing for: | 26.11.1982 | Request for further processing filed | 26.11.1982 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 13.12.1982 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.02.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 24.02.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 07.02.1985 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.02.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | SE | 06.02.1987 | [1989/17] | Documents cited: | Search | US3499591 [ ] (GREEN DAVID T); | FR2310117 [ ] (INST MED EKHNIKI [SU]) |