EP2903571 - TONGUE DEFORMATION IMPLANT [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.04.2021 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | |
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Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 19.12.2016 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Füglister, Fabian Hermann Urban Muehlegasse 10 5436 Würenlos / CH | [2015/33] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
see applicant ... | [2015/33] | Representative(s) | Kransell & Wennborg KB P.O. Box 27834 115 93 Stockholm / SE | [2015/33] | Application number, filing date | 13748093.5 | 07.06.2013 | [2015/33] | WO2013IB01195 | Priority number, date | US201261656582P | 07.06.2012 Original published format: US 201261656582 P | US201361787006P | 15.03.2013 Original published format: US 201361787006 P | [2015/33] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2013182893 | Date: | 12.12.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/50] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2903571 | Date: | 12.08.2015 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 12.12.2013 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2015/33] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2903571 | Date: | 27.05.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/22] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 06.03.2014 | Classification | IPC: | A61F5/56 | [2015/33] | CPC: |
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