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EP2956201 - SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANCHORING MEDICAL DEVICES [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.09.2022 Database last updated on 18.05.2024
Former	The patent has been granted Status updated on 08.10.2021
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 24.06.2021
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 06.01.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	27.04.2024	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK	published on 29.05.2024 [2024/22]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Interrad Medical, Inc. 181 Cheshire Lane North Suite 100 Plymouth, MN 55441 / US
	[2015/52]
Inventor(s)	01 / ROSENBERG, Michael S. 181 Cheshire Lane North Suite 100 Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 / US
	02 / CHRISTIANSON, Mark R. 13310 34th Avenue North Plymouth, Minnesota 55441 / US
	[2015/52]
Representative(s)	Fish & Richardson P.C. Highlight Business Towers Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 8 80807 München / DE
	[2021/45]
Former [2015/52]	Conroy, John Fish & Richardson P.C. Highlight Business Towers Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 8 80807 München / DE
Application number, filing date	14752197.5	12.02.2014
	[2015/52]
	WO2014US16042
Priority number, date	US201313766102	13.02.2013 Original published format: US201313766102
	[2015/52]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2014127010
	Date:	21.08.2014
	Language:	EN
	[2014/34]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2956201
	Date:	23.12.2015
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.08.2014 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2015/52]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP2956201
	Date:	10.11.2021
	Language:	EN
	[2021/45]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	KR	21.08.2014
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	20.12.2016
Classification	IPC:	A61M25/16, A61M25/14, // A61M25/02	[2017/03]
	CPC:	A61M25/02 (EP,US); A61M2025/0206 (EP,US); A61M2025/024 (EP,US); A61M2025/028 (EP,US); A61M2025/0286 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2015/52]	A61M25/16, A61M25/14
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 [2015/52]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Title	German:	SYSTEME UND VERFAHREN ZUR VERANKERUNG MEDIZINISCHER VORRICHTUNGEN	[2015/52]
	English:	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANCHORING MEDICAL DEVICES	[2015/52]
	French:	SYSTÈMES ET PROCÉDÉS D'ANCRAGE DES DISPOSITIFS MÉDICAUX	[2015/52]
Entry into regional phase	25.08.2015	National basic fee paid
	25.08.2015	Search fee paid
	25.08.2015	Designation fee(s) paid
	25.08.2015	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	25.08.2015	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	25.08.2015	Examination requested [2015/52]
	10.01.2017	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	24.04.2017	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	25.06.2021	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	29.09.2021	Fee for grant paid
	29.09.2021	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	29.09.2021	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 10.01.2017
Opposition(s)	11.08.2022	No opposition filed within time limit [2022/42]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	26.02.2016	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.02.2017	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.02.2018	Renewal fee patent year 05
	27.02.2019	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.02.2020	Renewal fee patent year 07
	25.02.2021	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	HU	12.02.2014
	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CY	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	IT	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	MK	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	BE	28.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
	[2024/22]
Former [2024/20]	HU	12.02.2014
	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CY	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	IT	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	BE	28.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2024/18]	HU	12.02.2014
	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	IT	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	BE	28.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2023/27]	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	IT	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	BE	28.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2023/10]	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	BE	28.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2023/09]	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IE	12.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	CH	28.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	LI	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2023/03]	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
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	LV	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
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	SE	10.11.2021
	SI	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	FR	28.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2023/01]	AL	10.11.2021
	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
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	LV	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
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	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
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	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
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	HR	10.11.2021
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	LV	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
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	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/47]	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SK	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	LU	12.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/44]	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
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	LV	10.11.2021
	MC	10.11.2021
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	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
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	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/35]	AT	10.11.2021
	CZ	10.11.2021
	DK	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
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	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/34]	AT	10.11.2021
	EE	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RO	10.11.2021
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	SE	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/33]	AT	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	SM	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/25]	AT	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	NO	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/24]	AT	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	LV	10.11.2021
	NL	10.11.2021
	PL	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	SE	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	GR	11.02.2022
	IS	10.03.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/23]	AT	10.11.2021
	ES	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	HR	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
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	PL	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
	PT	10.03.2022
Former [2022/22]	AT	10.11.2021
	FI	10.11.2021
	LT	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
Former [2022/21]	AT	10.11.2021
	RS	10.11.2021
	BG	10.02.2022
Former [2022/19]	BG	10.02.2022
Documents cited:	Search	[Y]WO9739790 (INTERSURGICAL LTD [GB], et al) [Y] 10 * figure 1 ** page 3, paragraph 3 *;
		[XY]US2009326473 (ROSENBERG MICHAEL S [US], et al) [X] 1-9,11 * figures 1, 2a, 2b * * paragraph [0022] * * paragraph [0023] * [Y] 10
	International search	[A]US2003083625 (BIERMAN STEVEN F [US]);
		[A]US2007232997 (GLENN BRADLEY J [US]);
		[A]US2011213310 (BIERMAN STEVEN F [US]);
		[A]US2012004617 (ROSENBERG MICHAEL [US], et al);
		[A]US2012078191 (ROSENBERG MICHAEL S [US], et al)
	by applicant	US2009326473

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