Laparoscopic access port with controlled sealing valve
CA 2313113 A1 · Owner: Smith & Nephew, Inc. · Inventors: Lucey, Paul V.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
In laparoscopic surgery or the like, access is provided to an opening in a body cavity that contains insufflation gas at an insufflation pressure. The flow of insufflation gas from the body cavity through the opening is limited in response to the sensed insufflation pressure in the cavity.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed December 4, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 4, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 4, 2020.
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