EP2679171 - Surgical instrument and bushing [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.09.2016 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 14.11.2018 [2018/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Covidien LP 15 Hampshire Street Mansfield, MA 02048 / US | [2014/01] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Cappola, Kenneth M. 70 Hurd Avenue Monroe, CT Connecticut 06468 / US | 02 /
Olson, Lee Ann 125 Elm Street Wallingford, CT Connecticut 06492 / US | 03 /
Maffei, Frank C. 26 Country Place Shelton, CT Connecticut 06484 / US | [2014/01] | Representative(s) | Maschio, Antonio Maschio & Soames IP Limited 30 Carlton Crescent Southampton SO15 2EW / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2015/45] | Maschio, Antonio Maschio & Soames IP Limited 20 Carlton Crescent Southampton, SO15 2ET / GB | ||
Former [2014/01] | Maschio, Antonio Maschio & Soames LLP 20 Carlton Crescent Southampton, SO15 2ET / GB | Application number, filing date | 13174200.9 | 28.06.2013 | [2014/01] | Priority number, date | US201261666028P | 29.06.2012 Original published format: US 201261666028 P | US201313871233 | 26.04.2013 Original published format: US201313871233 | [2014/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2679171 | Date: | 01.01.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2679171 | Date: | 04.11.2015 | Language: | EN | [2015/45] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.10.2013 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/072 | [2014/01] | CPC: |
A61B17/07207 (EP,US);
A61B17/068 (US);
A61B2017/00464 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00526 (EP,US);
A61B2017/2946 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2015/45] |
Former [2014/01] | AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR | Title | German: | Chirurgisches Instrument und Buchse | [2014/01] | English: | Surgical instrument and bushing | [2014/01] | French: | Instrument chirurgical et douille | [2014/01] | Examination procedure | 20.06.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 20.06.2014 | Examination requested [2014/31] | 21.08.2014 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 09.02.2015 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 19.06.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 24.09.2015 | Fee for grant paid | 24.09.2015 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 24.09.2015 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 is 21.08.2014 | Opposition(s) | 05.08.2016 | No opposition filed within time limit [2016/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 04.05.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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