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EP0635240
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0635240 - Multi-faceted surgical needle [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.08.1999 Database last updated on 03.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.09.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): DK | published on 05.11.2003 [2003/45] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY One Cyanamid Plaza Wayne New Jersey 07470 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/04] | For all designated states AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY One Cyanamid Plaza Wayne New Jersey 07470 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Allen, Richard Congdon 3409 Belmont Boulevard New Bern, North Carolina 28562 / US | [1995/04] | Representative(s) | Wächtershäuser, Günter Wächtershäuser & Hartz Patentanwälte Ottostrasse 4 80333 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/04] | Wächtershäuser, Günter, Prof. Dr. Patentanwalt, Tal 29 D-80331 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 94109606.7 | 22.06.1994 | [1995/04] | Priority number, date | US19930095798 | 22.07.1993 Original published format: US 95798 | [1995/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0635240 | Date: | 25.01.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0635240 | Date: | 21.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.11.1994 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/06 | [1995/04] | CPC: |
A61B17/06066 (EP,US);
A61B2017/06028 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30153 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30156 (EP,US);
A61F2002/30181 (EP,US);
A61F2230/0019 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LU, NL, PT [1995/04] | Title | German: | Mehrflächige chirurgische Nadel | [1995/04] | English: | Multi-faceted surgical needle | [1995/04] | French: | Aiguille chirurgicale à faces multiples | [1995/04] | Examination procedure | 13.07.1995 | Examination requested [1995/36] | 04.03.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.08.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.10.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.04.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.12.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.03.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.06.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 08.06.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 22.07.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.06.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 05.06.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 05.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | GR | 21.10.1998 | DK | 30.06.1999 | [2003/45] |
| Former [2001/23] | GR | 21.10.1998 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]EP0424152 (ETHICON INC [US]) [X] 1,5,6,8* column 3, line 31 - line 56; figures 1,5 * |