Surgical stapler cartridge lockout device
CA 2002180 C · Owner: Fox, William D. · Inventors: Fox, William D.; Nuchols, Richard P.; Nobis, Rudolph H.
Overview
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A lockout mechanism actuable upon the firing of staples in a surgical staple cartridge such that the lockout mechanism prevents the refiring of the spent staple cartridge when that cartridge remains loaded within the surgical stapler. In addition, the lockout mechanism will prevent reloading of a spent staple cartridge within a surgical stapler after the spent staple cartridge has been removed from the surgical stapler.
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- Filed November 3, 1989 and granted January 19, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 3, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 3, 2011.
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