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EP0776738
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0776738
| EP0776738 - An endoscopic surgical instrument [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 07.02.2003 Database last updated on 02.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 26.04.2013 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 29.05.2013 [2013/22] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park California 94025-3493 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/23] | For all designated states SRI INTERNATIONAL 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, California 94025-3493 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Green, Philip S. 820 Miranda Green Palo Alto California 94306 / US | [1997/28] |
| Former [1997/23] | 01 /
Green, Philip S. 585 California Way Redwood City, California 94062 / US | Representative(s) | Goddard, Frances Anna D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/24] | Goddard, Frances Anna D Young & Co 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | ||
| Former [2000/26] | Boden, Keith McMurray, et al D. Young & Co. 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | ||
| Former [1997/23] | Purvis, William Michael Cameron, et al D. Young & Co., 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | Application number, filing date | 96203539.0 | 14.01.1993 | [1997/23] | Priority number, date | US19920823932 | 21.01.1992 Original published format: US 823932 | [1997/23] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0776738 | Date: | 04.06.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/23] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0776738 | Date: | 16.07.1997 | [1997/29] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0776738 | Date: | 03.04.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/14] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.05.1997 | Classification | IPC: | B25J3/04, A61B19/00 | [1997/28] | CPC: |
A61B34/77 (EP,US);
A61B34/30 (EP,US);
A61B34/35 (EP,US);
A61B34/37 (EP,US);
A61B34/70 (EP,US);
A61B34/74 (EP,US);
A61B34/76 (EP,US);
B25J19/023 (EP,US);
B25J3/04 (EP,US);
H04N13/239 (EP,US);
H04N13/246 (EP,US);
H04N13/296 (EP,US);
H04N13/337 (EP,US);
H04N13/341 (EP,US);
H04N13/398 (EP,US);
A61B17/00234 (EP,US);
A61B2034/301 (EP,US);
A61B2034/305 (EP,US);
A61B2090/064 (EP,US);
A61B90/361 (EP,US);
H04N13/189 (EP,US);
H04N13/194 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1997/23] | B25J3/04, B25J9/04, A61B19/00 | Designated contracting states | AT, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, SE [1997/23] | Title | German: | Endoskopisches chirurgisches Instrument | [1997/23] | English: | An endoscopic surgical instrument | [1997/23] | French: | Instrument chirurgical endoscopique | [1997/23] | Examination procedure | 08.01.1997 | Examination requested [1997/23] | 03.01.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.03.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.03.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 19.07.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 25.07.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.10.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 05.10.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP93903472.4 / EP0623066 | Opposition(s) | 06.01.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/13] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 08.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 08.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 21.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 20.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 21.12.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 21.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.01.1998 | 06 M06 Fee paid on 26.06.1998 |
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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 | AT | 03.04.2002 | CH | 03.04.2002 | IT | 03.04.2002 | LI | 03.04.2002 | SE | 03.07.2002 | [2013/22] |
| Former [2008/06] | AT | 03.04.2002 | |
| CH | 03.04.2002 | ||
| IT | 03.04.2002 | ||
| LI | 03.04.2002 | ||
| SE | 03.07.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/30] | AT | 03.04.2002 | |
| CH | 03.04.2002 | ||
| LI | 03.04.2002 | ||
| SE | 03.07.2002 | ||
| DE | 04.07.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/16] | AT | 03.04.2002 | |
| CH | 03.04.2002 | ||
| LI | 03.04.2002 | ||
| SE | 03.07.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/10] | AT | 03.04.2002 | |
| SE | 03.07.2002 | ||
| Former [2002/42] | SE | 03.07.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [PA]WO9216141 (WILK PETER J [US]) [PA] 1,3-6,8-13* page 5, line 1 - line 32 *; | [PX]DE4213426 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO [JP]) [PX] 1-14 * column 11, line 20 - column 12, line 51 * * column 27, line 52 - line 62 * * column 29, line 66 - column 30, line 53 * | by applicant | US3921445 | GB2040134 | US4562463 | US4583117 | - BEJCZY ET AL., "Controlling Remote Manipulators Through Kinesthetic Coupling.", Computers in Mechanical Engineering., (198307), pages 48 - 60, XP000617842 | - SPAIN E.H., "Stereo Advantage for a Peg-In-Hole Task Using a Force-Feedback Manipulator.", STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAYS AND APPLICATIONS., (1990), vol. 1256, doi:doi:10.1117/12.19908, pages 244 - 254, XP000617845 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.19908 | - TACHI ET AL., "Tele-Existence Master Slave System for Remote Manipulation (II).", Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Decision and Control., vol. 1 OF 6, pages 85 - 90 |