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Portion of nerve root retractor with sensor

Granted 5 Aug 2008 · no office action yet

Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.

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Inventors: Jimmy Jian-min Mao, Robert E Lash · Examiner: Ian Simmons · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/284,438
filed 7 Sep 2007
Publication
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US D574493
granted 5 Aug 2008

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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 design for a portion of a nerve root retractor with sensor.

FIG. 2 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a front view thereof; and

FIG. 6 is a first alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 7 is a second alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 8 is a third alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 9 is a fourth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 10 is a fifth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 11 is a sixth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 12 is a seventh alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 13 is an eighth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 14 is a ninth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 15 is a tenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 16 is an eleventh alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 17 is a twelfth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 18 is a thirteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 19 is a fourteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 20 is a fifteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 21 is a sixteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 22 is a seventeenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 23 is an eighteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 24 is a nineteenth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 25 is a twentieth alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 26 is a twenty-first alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 27 is a twenty-second alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 28 is a twenty-third alternate bottom view of the design.

FIG. 29 is a twenty-fourth alternate bottom view of the design; and,

FIG. 30 is a twenty-fifth alternate bottom view of the design.

Other views of FIGS. 7–30 (alternate bottom views) are the same as in FIGS. 1–5 .

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/135

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