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EP0923908 - Apparatus for stabilizing certain vertebrae of the spine [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.02.2004 Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	03.12.2004	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IE	published on 19.01.2005 [2005/03]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Lange, Robert 39 Rue du Temple 75004 Paris / FR
	[1999/25]
Inventor(s)	01 / see applicant ...
	[1999/25]
Representative(s)	Groner, Manfred, et al Isler & Pedrazzini AG Gotthardstrasse 53 Postfach 1772 8027 Zürich / CH
	[N/P]
Former [1999/25]	Groner, Manfred, et al Isler & Pedrazzini AG, Patentanwälte, Postfach 6940 8023 Zürich / CH
Application number, filing date	97810998.1	17.12.1997
	[1999/25]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0923908
	Date:	23.06.1999
	Language:	EN
	[1999/25]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0923908
	Date:	23.04.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/17]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	04.06.1998
Classification	IPC:	A61B17/70	[1999/25]
	CPC:	A61B17/7037 (EP,US); A61B17/7041 (EP,US); A61B2017/603 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, PT, SE [2000/09]
Former [1999/25]	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE
Title	German:	Apparat zur Stabilisierung bestimmter Wirbel der Wirbelsäule	[1999/25]
	English:	Apparatus for stabilizing certain vertebrae of the spine	[1999/25]
	French:	Appareil pour stabiliser certaines vertèbres du rachis	[1999/25]
Examination procedure	23.12.1999	Examination requested [2000/09]
	24.12.1999	Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
	05.04.2000	Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) LU, MC
	13.03.2001	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	30.04.2001	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	27.06.2002	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	31.10.2002	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	25.01.2003	Fee for grant paid
	25.01.2003	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	26.01.2004	No opposition filed within time limit [2004/16]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	10.12.1999	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.11.2000	Renewal fee patent year 04
	20.10.2001	Renewal fee patent year 05
	05.02.2003	Renewal fee patent year 06
	Penalty fee
	Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973
	26.01.2000	LU M01 Not yet paid
	26.01.2000	MC M01 Not yet paid
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	31.12.2002	06 M06 Fee paid on 05.02.2003
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	23.04.2003
	FI	23.04.2003
	DK	23.07.2003
	GR	23.07.2003
	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
	IE	17.12.2003
	[2005/03]
Former [2004/23]	AT	23.04.2003
	FI	23.04.2003
	DK	23.07.2003
	GR	23.07.2003
	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
Former [2004/05]	AT	23.04.2003
	FI	23.04.2003
	GR	23.07.2003
	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
Former [2004/03]	AT	23.04.2003
	GR	23.07.2003
	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
Former [2004/02]	GR	23.07.2003
	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
Former [2004/01]	PT	23.07.2003
	SE	23.07.2003
Former [2003/41]	SE	23.07.2003
Documents cited:	Search	[A]EP0384001 (ACROMED CORP [US]) [A] 7 * column 5, line 17 - line 23; figure 4 *;
		[XA]EP0408489 (SULZER AG [CH]) [X] 1-6,9-12 * figure - * [A] 7,8;
		[XA]FR2702361 (SOPRANE SA [FR]) [X] 1-6,9-12 * figures 2,3 * [A] 7,8;
		[A]FR2720923 (SRA SARL [FR], et al) [A] 7,8* page 7, line 28 - page 8, line 23; figures 1,4 *;
		[XA]FR2730155 (ALBY ALBERT [FR]) [X] 1-6,9-12 * figures 1,4 * [A] 7,8;
		[XA]DE19512709 (REHDER GUENTHER [DE]) [X] 1-6,9-12 * figures 9,10 * [A] 7,8
	by applicant	US4369769
		US4433676
		US4653481
		US5030220

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