Spine distraction implant
CA 2584388 A1 · Owner: Saint Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. · Inventors: Hsu, Ken Y.; Winslow, Charles J.; Zucherman, James F.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A spine distraction implant (1200) alleviates pain associated with spinal stenosis, and facet arthropathy by expanding the volume in the spine canal or , neural, foramen. The implant provides a spinal extension stop (1204) while allowing freedom, of spinal flexion.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 27, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 27, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 27, 2020.
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