EP2245991 - System and method for making tapered looped suture [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 22.11.2013 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.07.2015 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): HU, LU | published on 19.08.2015 [2015/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Covidien LP 15 Hampshire Street Mansfield, MA 02048 / US | [2012/52] |
Former [2010/44] | For all designated states Tyco Healthcare Group LP 60 Middletown Avenue North Haven, CT 06473 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Maiorino, Nicholas 53 Avon Road Branford, CT 06405 / US | 02 /
Kosa, Timothy 93 Hearn Lane Hamden, CT 06514 / US | 03 /
Buchter, Mark 27 North Coe Lane Ansonia, CT 06401 / US | 04 /
Kroeber, Keith 40 Payne Boulevard Portland, CT 06480 / US | 05 /
Hart, Richard Casey 9 Stevens Road Clinton, CT 06413 / US | [2010/44] | Representative(s) | Soames, Candida Jane, et al Maschio & Soames IP Limited 30 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EW / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2013/03] | Soames, Candida Jane, et al Maschio & Soames LLP 20 Carlton Crescent Southampton, SO15 2ET / GB | ||
Former [2011/45] | Soames, Candida Jane, et al Edwards Wildman Innovations LLP 10 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EZ / GB | ||
Former [2010/44] | Soames, Candida Jane Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge Innovations LLP 10 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EZ / GB | Application number, filing date | 10250847.0 | 28.04.2010 | [2010/44] | Priority number, date | US20090173719P | 29.04.2009 Original published format: US 173719 P | US20100751456 | 31.03.2010 Original published format: US 751456 | [2010/44] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2245991 | Date: | 03.11.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/44] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2245991 | Date: | 16.01.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/03] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 03.09.2010 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/06, // A61B17/00 | [2010/44] | CPC: |
A61B17/06166 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00526 (EP,US);
A61B2017/0619 (EP,US);
Y10T156/12 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2010/44] | Title | German: | System und Verfahren zur Herstellung einer verjüngten Schlaufennaht | [2010/44] | English: | System and method for making tapered looped suture | [2010/44] | French: | Système et procédé de fabrication de suture biseautée à boucle | [2010/44] | Examination procedure | 03.05.2011 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 03.05.2011 | Examination requested [2011/24] | 17.11.2011 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 10.05.2012 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.08.2012 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.12.2012 | Fee for grant paid | 06.12.2012 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP12195006.7 / EP2564790 | The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 17.11.2011 | Opposition(s) | 17.10.2013 | No opposition filed within time limit [2013/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.04.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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NO | 16.04.2013 | Documents cited: | Search | [XI]US2002029065 (SHCHERVINSKY SEMYON [US]) [X] 1,2 * paragraph [0052]; figures 1-5 * * paragraph [0002] * * paragraph [0039] * * paragraph [0040] * * paragraph [0050] * * paragraph [0044] * [I] 6; | [A]WO0222025 (AXYA MEDICAL INC [US]) [A] 1,9* paragraphs [0038] , [0 39]; figures 10a-15b *; | [E]EP2184157 (TYCO HEALTHCARE [US]) [E] 1-3,7 * paragraph [0034]; figures 2a-6c * * paragraph [0037] * * paragraph [0038] * * paragraph [0040] * * paragraph [0036] * |