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Surgical instrument

Granted 25 Jun 2013 · no office action yet

Current assignee: DEPUY SPINE, INC. · originally Johnson & Johnson

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Inventors: Jason S. Chan, Eric Lui, Michael J. Yaremchuk · Examiner: Wan Laymon · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/434,269
filed 11 Oct 2012
Publication
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US D685089
granted 25 Jun 2013

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Description

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

FIG. 1 is a top, left, front perspective view of a surgical instrument according to our design;

FIG. 1A is an enlarged top, left, front perspective view of a portion thereof;

FIG. 2 is a bottom, right, rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 2A is an enlarged bottom, right, rear perspective view of a portion thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a front elevation view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a rear elevation view thereof.

The broken line portion of the figure drawings is included to show unclaimed subject matter only for the purpose of illustrating environment and forms no part of the claimed design.

In a preferred embodiment, the nature of this product is a surgical instrument that can align an implant, such as a malar implant, with an underlying boney structure.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/143D76/53

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