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Handle for ophthalmic surgical instrument

Granted 16 Mar 2010 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Alcon Research · originally Alcon

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Inventors: Steven T. Charles, Jason Safabash, Jack R. Auld, Christopher L. McCollam · Examiner: Ian Simmons · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/334,671
filed 31 Mar 2009
Publication
Not published
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US D612052
granted 16 Mar 2010

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a top, front perspective view of a handle for an ophthalmic surgical instrument showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is an enlarged right side view thereof.

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3 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/150D24/147D24/133

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