EP0699423 - Thinly woven flexible graft [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.06.2004 Database last updated on 20.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.04.2005 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU | published on 08.06.2005 [2005/23] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Meadox Medicals, Inc. 112 Bauer Drive Oakland New Jersey 07436 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1996/10] | For all designated states Meadox Medicals, Inc. 112 Bauer Drive Oakland New Jersey 07436 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Schmitt, Peter J. 2 Bubenko Drive Garnerville, NY 10923 / US | 02 /
Nunez, Jose F. 11 Grove Street Kearny, NY 07032 / US | [1996/10] | Representative(s) | Nash, David Allan, et al Haseltine Lake LLP Redcliff Quay 120 Redcliff Street Bristol BS1 6HU / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2000/28] | Nash, David Allan, et al Haseltine Lake & Co., Imperial House, 15-19 Kingsway London WC2B 6UD / GB | ||
Former [2000/27] | Nash, David Allan, et al Haseltine Lake & Co. Redcliff Quay 120 Redcliff Street Bristol BS1 6HU / GB | ||
Former [1996/10] | Jones, Michael Raymond, et al HASELTINE LAKE & CO. Hazlitt House 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane London WC2A 1AT / GB | Application number, filing date | 95302914.7 | 28.04.1995 | [1996/10] | Priority number, date | US19940285334 | 02.08.1994 Original published format: US 285334 | [1996/10] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0699423 | Date: | 06.03.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/10] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0699423 | Date: | 28.05.1997 | [1997/22] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0699423 | Date: | 06.08.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/32] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 08.04.1997 | Classification | IPC: | A61F2/06 | [1996/10] | CPC: |
A61F2/07 (EP,US);
A61F2/06 (EP,US);
A61F2002/065 (EP,US);
A61F2250/0098 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1996/10] | Title | German: | Feingewebtes flexibles Implantat | [1996/10] | English: | Thinly woven flexible graft | [1996/10] | French: | Greffe tissée finement | [1996/10] | Examination procedure | 24.10.1997 | Examination requested [1997/52] | 10.07.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 16.01.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.12.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.05.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 30.05.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP03015574.1 / EP1371345 | Opposition(s) | 07.05.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/31] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.04.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 21.04.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 07.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 09.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 08.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 07.04.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | BE | 06.08.2003 | CH | 06.08.2003 | LI | 06.08.2003 | DK | 06.11.2003 | SE | 06.11.2003 | LU | 28.04.2004 | [2005/23] |
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Former [2004/16] | SE | 06.11.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4872874 (TAHERI SYDE A [US]) [A] 1 * column 3, line 55 - line 60; figures 4,12 *; | [A]GB2115776 (ONTARIO RESEARCH FOUNDATION) [A] 1 * example 1; claim 17 *; | [A]EP0095940 (ETHICON INC [US], et al) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [A]US5151105 (KWAN-GETT CLIFFORD [US]) [A] 1-3,8,9 * column 4, line 62 - column 5, line 2 * * column 9, line 52 - column 10, line 12; figure 1 *; | [A]WO8900031 (VASCUTEC INC [US]) [A] 2,3,8-10 * page 6, line 4 - line 17; figures 1,2 *; | [A]WO8806026 (ARPESANI ALBERTO [IT]) [A] 2,3,8-10 * page 7, line 8 - line 11; figure 1; claims 2,3 * |