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EP1642534
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| EP1642534 - Biopsy device with sample storage [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.05.2010 Database last updated on 13.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 27.08.2010 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IE | published on 29.09.2010 [2010/39] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC. 4545 Creek Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 / US | [2006/14] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hibner, John A. 3257 Range Court Mason Ohio 45040 / US | [2006/14] | Representative(s) | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen, et al Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2006/14] | Tunstall, Christopher Stephen, et al Carpmaels & Ransford, 43-45 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | Application number, filing date | 05256054.7 | 28.09.2005 | [2006/14] | Priority number, date | US20040953395 | 29.09.2004 Original published format: US 953395 | [2006/14] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1642534 | Date: | 05.04.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/14] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1642534 | Date: | 10.05.2006 | [2006/19] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1642534 | Date: | 22.07.2009 | Language: | EN | [2009/30] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.03.2006 | Classification | IPC: | A61B10/00 | [2006/14] | CPC: |
A61B10/0266 (EP,US);
A61B10/0275 (EP,US);
A61B10/0283 (EP,US);
A61B2010/0225 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IE, NL [2007/03] |
| Former [2006/14] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Biopsievorrichtung mit Anordnung zum Aufbewahren von Proben | [2006/14] | English: | Biopsy device with sample storage | [2006/14] | French: | Dispositif de biopsie avec un ensemble de stockage d'échantillons | [2006/14] | Examination procedure | 23.10.2006 | Examination requested [2006/49] | 21.11.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 28.03.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.07.2007 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 07.12.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.06.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 09.10.2008 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.04.2009 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.06.2009 | Fee for grant paid | 05.06.2009 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 23.04.2010 | No opposition filed within time limit [2010/26] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.09.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | NL | 22.07.2009 | IE | 28.09.2009 | [2010/39] |
| Former [2010/12] | NL | 22.07.2009 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]US6485436 (TRUCKAI CSABA [US], et al) [Y] 1-4,7,11 * column 3, line 7 - line 21; figures 2a,2b * * column 4, line 1 - line 40; figure 1 * * column 6, line 8 - line 49; figure 6 *; | [Y]US6322522 (ZIMMON DAVID S [US]) [Y] 1-4,7,11 * column 5, line 36 - line 45; figures 3,4 *; | [DXA]US2004153003 (CICENAS CHRIS [US], et al) [DX] 11 * paragraph [0023] - paragraph [0024]; figure 1 * * paragraph [0027] * * paragraph [0034] * * paragraph [0045] * [A] 1,2,7; | [A]US2004019299 (RITCHART MARK A [US], et al) [A] 1,11 * paragraph [0052]; figures 1,4 * * paragraph [0059] - paragraph [0061] *; | [DA]WO2004075728 (ETHICON ENDO SURGERY INC [US]) [DA] 1,11 * paragraph [0073] - paragraph [0075]; figures 14a-14c *; | [A]US6231522 (VOEGELE JAMES WALDEN [US], et al) [A] 1,11 * column 4, line 46 - column 5, line 17; figures 1,2 * * column 7, line 1 - line 2; figure 13 * | by applicant | US6273862 | US6231522 | US6228055 | US6120462 | US6086544 | US6077230 | US6017316 | US6007497 | US5980469 | US5964716 | US5928164 | US5775333 | US5769086 | US5649547 | US5526822 | US2003199753 |