Owner Tecres S.p.A.

Inventors Faccioli, Giovanni; Soffiatti, Renzo

Agent Callinan

Pub. Number AU-B-2003240194

PCT Number PCT/IB03/02349

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/002375

Priority VI2002A000140 26.06.02 IT

Filing date 18 June 2003

Wipo publication date 19 January 2004

Acceptance publication date 17 May 2007

A61B 17/56 (2006.01) Surgery - Surgical instruments or methods for treatment of bones or joints

A61B 17/88 (2006.01) Surgery - Methods or means for implanting or extracting internal fixation devices

A61F 2/44 (2006.01) Filters - for the spine, e.g. vertebrae, spinal discs

A61M 5/148 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way

B05C 17/01 (2006.01) Hand tools or apparatus using hand-held tools, for applying liquids or other fluent materials to, for spreading applied liquids or other fluent materials on, or for partially removing applied liquids or other fluent materials from, surfaces

A61B 19/00 (2006.01) Instruments, implements or accessories for surgery or diagnosis not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for stereotaxis, sterile operation, luxation treatment, wound edge protectors

A61F 2/46 (2006.01) Filters - Special tools for implanting artificial joints