Bone implant and insertion tools
CA 2460028 A1 · Owner: Rosenthal, Daniel Evan · Inventors: Lin, Jo-Wen; Martz, Erik O.; Winterbottom John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Spinal and other implants may be bone or synthetic material shaped as rings C-, shaped or rectangular and so on. The implants have one or more recesses aligned in an insertion direction at either or both outer peripheral sides of the implant. In a ring implant, e.g. formed from a transverse slice of the diaphysis of a long bone or otherwise, the recesses are aligned overlying the opposing sides of the ring parallel to the insertion direction which , sides are stronger than the more central region overlying and aligned with a central chamber in the implant. One or two spaced recesses on opposite sides (150) of an implant have surface(s) transverse to the insertion direction receive the …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 28, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 28, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 28, 2024.
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