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EP About this file: EP2368508

EP2368508 - Endoscopic rotating electrical knife [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  20.12.2013
Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip20.12.2013No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 22.01.2014  [2014/04]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-0072 / JP
[N/P]
Former [2011/39]For all designated states
Olympus Medical Systems Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-0072 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yutaka, Yanuma
Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo / JP
 [2011/39]
Representative(s)Schmidt, Steffen
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
Patentanwälte PartG mbB
Schweigerstrasse 2
81541 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2013/07]Schmidt, Steffen
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Schweigerstrasse 2
81541 München / DE
Former [2011/39]Schmidt, Steffen
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Schweigerstrasse 2
81541 München / DE
Application number, filing date11003697.712.08.2008
[2011/39]
Priority number, dateUS2007084059617.08.2007         Original published format: US 840596
[2011/39]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2368508
Date:28.09.2011
Language:EN
[2011/39]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2368508
Date:13.02.2013
Language:EN
[2013/07]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP29.08.2011
ClassificationIPC:A61B18/14
[2011/39]
CPC:
A61B18/1492 (EP,US); A61B2018/00601 (US); A61B2018/1407 (EP,US);
A61B2018/144 (EP,US); A61B2018/1861 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IE [2011/39]
TitleGerman:Endoskopisches drehbares Elektrischmesser[2011/39]
English:Endoscopic rotating electrical knife[2011/39]
French:Couteau endoscopique électrique à rotation[2011/39]
Examination procedure27.03.2012Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
27.03.2012Examination requested  [2012/19]
16.07.2012Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.11.2012Fee for grant paid
02.11.2012Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP08014370.4  / EP2025298
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP20080014370) is  05.06.2009
Opposition(s)14.11.2013No opposition filed within time limit [2014/04]
Fees paidRenewal fee
05.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 03
18.08.2011Renewal fee patent year 04
20.08.2012Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[XAY]US5967984  (CHU MICHAEL S H [US], et al) [X] 1 * figures 3,6,23,24 * * column 7, lines 31-37 * * column 8, lines 15-51 * [A] 3,4 [Y] 2;
 [Y]US2002095168  (GRIEGO JOHN A [US], et al) [Y] 2 * figures 1,2,9 * * paragraphs [0054] - [0058] *;
 [A]US6471702  (GOTO HIROAKI [JP]) [A] 1-4 * figures 1-6 * * columns 3-7 *;
 [A]EP1688099  (PENTAX CORP [JP]) [A] 1-4 * figures 1-6 * * columns 4-7 *
by applicantJPH09285472
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