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Trailing end of a spinal implant

Granted 14 May 2002 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic · originally Gary K. Michelson

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Inventors: Gary K. Michelson · Examiner: Antoine Duval Davis · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/151,251
filed 31 Oct 2001
Publication
Not published
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US D457242
granted 14 May 2002

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the trailing end of a spinal implant in accordance with a eighth embodiment of my claimed design with the remainder of the implant shown in hidden line and forming no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is an end view of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of FIG. 1 with the remainder of the implant shown in hidden line and forming no part of the claimed design.

The broken line showing is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/155

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Examiner
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