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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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 | 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 | |
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GR | 23.07.2003 | ||
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Former [2004/03] | AT | 23.04.2003 | |
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Former [2004/02] | GR | 23.07.2003 | |
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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 |