A flexible annular stapler for closed surgery of hollow organs

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Listed from its IP Australia record in Patent Yard's archive of Australian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the AusPat record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

• Filed July 17, 1997 and granted August 24, 2000. An Australian standard patent lasts 20 years from its date of patent, which is at most a year after this filing, so its term ended by July 17, 2018.
• A pharmaceutical extension adds at most five years, so even that would have ended by July 17, 2023.
• We check Australian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.