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Portion of surgical retractor with sensor

Granted 1 Mar 2011 · 4 office actions

Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.

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

Application
29/324,562
filed 15 Sep 2008
Publication
Not published
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US D633614
granted 1 Mar 2011

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Description

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›FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a design for a portion of a surgical retractor with sensor.

FIG. 2 shows a left side view of the design.

FIG. 3 shows a right side view of the design.

FIG. 4 shows a bottom view of the design.

FIG. 5 shows a top view of the design.

FIG. 6 shows a front view of the design; and,

FIG. 7 shows a back view of the design.

The broken-line features in the figures are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

The broken lines immediately adjacent to the shaded surface areas are unclaimed boundary lines and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/135

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Pendency
2.5 y
897 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
2
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Examiner
Ian Simmons
art unit 2916 · TC 2900
Citations: 40 back · 0 forward

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