Khosravi and Accessclosure

Ishan Walia

Assignment 2

PART 1

2. Apparatus and Methods for Facilitating Hemostasis within a Vascular Puncture

a) Patent number 8348971

b) Priority date Aug 27, 2004

c) Issue date January 8, 2013

3. a)

i. 09-05-2006

ii. 8-9 months

iii. 02-05-2007

iv. 09-12-2012

v. The patent was too broadly stated, it was rejected 2 times, advisory action was required, and there were many meetings that delayed the process.

4.

b.

1: removed "comprising" and narrowed it to consisting essentially of, rephrased "absorbed within no more than about twelve hours" to "SUBSTANTIALLY absorbed within about twenty four hours"

2: Removed

3: narrowed to claim from "wherein the sealing member" to "wherein the ENTIRE sealing member"

4: narrowed to claim from "wherein the sealing member" to "wherein the ENTIRE sealing member"

5-10: no change

11: removed the word device, specified "the distal end comprising a substantially atraumatic distal tip", changed "member formed from" to "member formed ENTIRELY from", specified the time of exposure to twelve hour

12: Specified that the material is substantially absorbed within in not more than three hours of exposure

13-22: no change

23: Specified the time period from not to exceed twenty four hours to not more than about twelve hours, and changed "time period the sealing member" to "time period the ENTIRE sealing member"

24-30: no change

31: Removed

32-35: Added words such as ENTIRE to narrow down the claim

36-42: previously presented claims and narrowed them by adding a more specific time frame, such as not exceeding twenty four hours to not more than twelve hours

c. The claims were to wide, the one looking over the patent must have thought the claims were to broad and conflicted with prior patents and they needed them to revise it in order to narrow down the claims.

Part 2

1.

0) Nov 2002 founding of company

1) 2008 patent infringement lawsuit filed by St. Jude Medica

2) June 2009 the company launched a...