EP0808606 - Surgical retractor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.02.2004 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 13.02.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 31.03.2004 [2004/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states United States Surgical Corporation 150 Glover Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06856 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1997/48] | For all designated states United States Surgical Corporation 150 Glover Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut 06856 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sherts, Charles R. 443 Riverside Avenue Westport, CT 06880 / US | 02 /
Nicholas, David 148 Cottage Street Trumbull, CT 06611 / US | 03 /
Farascioni, David 30 Deepwood Drive Bethel, CT 06801 / US | 04 /
Ratcliff, Keith 14 Concorde Ridge Newtown, CT 06470 / GB | 05 /
Hinchliffe, Peter W.J. 285 Central Avenue New Haven, CT 06515 / GB | 06 /
Aranyi, Cathy 170 Stepney Road Easton, CT 06612 / US | [1997/48] | Representative(s) | Marsh, Roy David, et al Hoffmann Eitle ATTENTION : ADDRESS INACTIVE - USE ASS-NR - CDR / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1997/48] | Marsh, Roy David, et al Hoffmann Eitle, Patent- und Rechtsanwälte, Arabellastrasse 4 81925 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 97106912.5 | 25.04.1997 | [1997/48] | Priority number, date | US19970801052 | 14.02.1997 Original published format: US 801052 | US19960717591 | 23.09.1996 Original published format: US 717591 | US19960016325P | 26.04.1996 Original published format: US 16325 P | [2002/46] |
Former [1997/48] | US19970801052 | 14.02.1997 | |
US19960717591 | 23.09.1996 | ||
US19960016325 | 26.04.1996 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0808606 | Date: | 26.11.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0808606 | Date: | 09.04.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/15] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 14.07.1997 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/02 | [1997/48] | CPC: |
A61B17/0293 (EP,US);
A61M1/77 (EP,US);
A61B17/12 (EP,US);
A61B17/1325 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00243 (EP,US);
A61B2017/0237 (EP,US);
A61B2017/0243 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2905 (EP,US);
A61B2090/306 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1997/48] | Title | German: | Chirurgischer Retraktor | [1997/48] | English: | Surgical retractor | [1997/48] | French: | Ecarteur chirurgical | [1997/48] | Examination procedure | 15.04.1998 | Examination requested [1998/24] | 31.01.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.06.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.10.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.01.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 30.01.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP03007351.4 / EP1323383 | Opposition(s) | 12.01.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/14] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 06.04.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 03.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 02.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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