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EP0479565
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0479565
| EP0479565 - Medical apparatus for endoscopic surgery [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.10.1996 Database last updated on 22.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 09.01.2008 [2008/02] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Cook Incorporated 925 South Curry Pike Bloomington, IN 47402-0489 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1992/15] | For all designated states Cook Incorporated 925 South Curry Pike P.O. Box 489 Bloomington Indiana 47402 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Olsen, Douglas O. 5712 Spring House Way Brentwood, Tennessee 37027 / US | 02 /
Bates, Brian L. 3718 Exeter Lane Bloomington, Indiana 47401 / US | 03 /
Osborne, Thomas, A. 2418 Spicewood Lane Bloomington, Indiana 47401 / US | [1992/15] | Representative(s) | Johnston, Kenneth Graham Lucent Technologies EUR-IP UK Ltd Unit 18, Core 3 Workzone Innova Business Park Electric Avenue Enfield, EN3 7XB / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1992/15] | Johnston, Kenneth Graham 5 Mornington Road Woodford Green Essex, IG8 OTU / GB | Application number, filing date | 91309012.2 | 02.10.1991 | [1992/15] | Priority number, date | US19900592676 | 03.10.1990 Original published format: US 592676 | [1992/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0479565 | Date: | 08.04.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/15] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0479565 | Date: | 01.07.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/27] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0479565 | Date: | 20.12.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/51] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.05.1992 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/34, A61M29/00 | [1992/15] | CPC: |
A61B17/3417 (EP,US);
A61M29/00 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1992/15] | Title | German: | Medizinisches Gerät für endoskopische Chirurgie | [1992/15] | English: | Medical apparatus for endoscopic surgery | [1992/15] | French: | Appareil médical pour chirurgie endoscopique | [1992/15] | Examination procedure | 01.10.1992 | Examination requested [1992/49] | 04.10.1993 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.02.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.05.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 14.11.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.02.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.06.1995 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.08.1995 | Fee for grant paid | 15.08.1995 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.09.1996 | No opposition filed within time limit [1996/50] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 04.10.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 02.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | ES | 20.12.1995 | FR | 20.12.1995 | IT | 20.12.1995 | DE | 21.03.1996 | [2006/14] |
| Former [2002/25] | ES | 20.12.1995 | |
| IT | 20.12.1995 | ||
| DE | 21.03.1996 | ||
| FR | 15.05.1996 | ||
| Former [1999/42] | IT | 20.12.1995 | |
| DE | 21.03.1996 | ||
| FR | 15.05.1996 | ||
| Former [1996/42] | DE | 21.03.1996 | |
| FR | 15.05.1996 | ||
| Former [1996/28] | DE | 21.03.1996 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JP2144070 ; | [X]EP0206553 (STREATFIELD GILL STEVEN [GB], et al); | [X]US4498902 (ASH STEPHEN R [US], et al); | [A]US3994287 (TURP GERALD, et al); | [A]EP0339945 (ADAIR EDWIN LLOYD); | [A]DE836546 (JOSEF BERCHTOLD) | [A] - DERWENT WPIL, Derwent Publication Limited, London, GB; & JP-A-2 144 070 (PN), & JP2144070 A 00000000 |