Method and kit for interpositional arthroplasty
CA 2492030 A1 · Owner: Griffin, David · Inventors: Arsenyev, Alexander; Rydell, Mark A.; Griffin, David
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method and system for the creation or modification of the wear surface of orthopedic joints, involving the preparation and use of one or more partially or fully preformed components adapted for insertion and placement into the body and at the joint site. The system includes a method and related components and/or devices in the form of a kit that can be used to provide or perform some or all of the steps of: a) preparing a joint to receive an implant, b) determining an appropriate implant size for a particular joint c) , determining an appropriate implant thickness d) inserting the implant into , the joint and/or e) securing the implant within the joint to a desired extent. One or …
Read the whole patent
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 July 10, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 10, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 10, 2025.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.