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EP0577400
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0577400
| EP0577400 - Flexible endoscopic surgical port [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.08.2000 Database last updated on 20.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 25.08.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 11.10.2000 [2000/41] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ETHICON, INC. U.S. Route 22 Somerville, New Jersey 08876 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/01] | For all designated states ETHICON INC. U.S. Route 22 Somerville New Jersey 08876 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hildwein, Roger L. 8732 Donovan Court Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 / US | 02 /
Uschold, Robert C. 11872 Belgreen Lane Cincinnati, Ohio 45240 / US | 03 /
Staley, J.D., Jr. 252, Woodcrest Drive Loveland, Ohio 45140 / US | 04 /
Riestenberg, Paul 3445 Ebenezer Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45248 / US | 05 /
Gallagher, Laura 3550 Stoneboat Court Maineville, Ohio 45039 / US | 06 /
Nagao, Rex 11374 Avant Lane Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 / US | [1994/01] | Representative(s) | Fisher, Adrian John, et al Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/01] | Fisher, Adrian John, et al CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | Application number, filing date | 93305096.5 | 29.06.1993 | [1994/01] | Priority number, date | US19920906774 | 30.06.1992 Original published format: US 906774 | [1994/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0577400 | Date: | 05.01.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0577400 | Date: | 27.10.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 02.11.1993 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/34, A61B17/28 | [1994/01] | CPC: |
A61B17/29 (EP,US);
A61B17/3423 (EP,US);
A61B17/320016 (EP,US);
A61B17/3431 (EP,US);
A61B17/3439 (EP,US);
A61B2017/3419 (EP,US);
A61B2017/3427 (EP,US);
A61B2017/3484 (EP,US);
A61B2017/3492 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1994/01] | Title | German: | Biegsamer, endoskopischer, chirurgischer Durchlass | [1994/01] | English: | Flexible endoscopic surgical port | [1994/01] | French: | Conduit surgical endoscopique flexible | [1994/01] | Examination procedure | 14.06.1994 | Examination requested [1994/32] | 15.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 30.10.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.01.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.05.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.10.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 11.02.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.07.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 11.08.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.02.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 28.04.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.05.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 12.05.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.07.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.05.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.06.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.06.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 14.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]SU1618397 ; | [A]FR743519 ; | [A]DE3017065 (MESSINGSCHLAGER WALTER DR [DE]); | [Y]US4423740 (CASTLE G S PETER [CA], et al); | [X]US4452244 (CHIN ALBERT K [US]); | [X]US4545374 (JACOBSON ROBERT E [US]); | [X]US4631051 (HARRIS DONALD L [US]); | [Y]DE3507086 ; | [X]US4978334 (TOYE FREDERIC J [US], et al); | [A]EP0480653 (VANCE PRODUCTS INC [US]) | [A] - SOVIET PATENTS ABSTRACTS Section PQ, Week 9137, Derwent Publications Ltd., London, GB; Class P31, AN 91-272376 & SU-A-1 618 397 (KIEV DOCTOR TRAIN), & SU1618397 A 00000000 |