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Handle for medical instrument

Granted 15 Jun 2010 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Karl Storz

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Inventors: Jochen Stefan, Charles H. Koh, Uwe Renger · Examiner: Ian Simmons · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/329,913
filed 23 Dec 2008
Publication
Not published
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US D617899
granted 15 Jun 2010

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Description

1 parts
›FIG. 1 is a top front left side…

FIG. 1 is a top front left side isometric view of a handle for medical instrument showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a rear view thereof.

The broken line showing of the circular elements in FIG. 6 is included for the purpose of illustrating portions of the handle for medical instrument and forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

4 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/133D24/143D24/147D24/146

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Examiner
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