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Surgical fastener

Granted 1 Dec 2015 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Ethicon · originally Johnson & Johnson

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Inventors: Anthony Miksza, Matthew David Daniel, Jeremy David Jarrett, Robert Nering +1 · Examiner: Wan Laymon · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/459,660
filed 2 Jul 2013
Publication
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US D744646
granted 1 Dec 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surgical fastener, showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the surgical fastener shown in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the surgical fastener shown in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a left side view of the surgical fastener shown in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a front elevation view of the surgical fastener shown in FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 6 is a rear perspective view of the surgical fastener shown in FIG. 1 .

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/145

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