- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61F - Filters implantable into blood vessels; prostheses; devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents; orthopaedic, nursing or contraceptive devices; fomentation; treatment or protection of eyes or ears; bandages, dressings or absorbent pads; first-aid kits
- A61F 2/04 - Hollow or tubular parts of organs, e.g. bladders, tracheae, bronchi or bile ducts
Patent holdings for IPC class A61F 2/04
Total number of patents in this class: 2424
10-year publication summary
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211
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242
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204
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226
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196
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193
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173
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161
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130
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34
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
343 |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 3369 |
58 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2600 |
52 |
| Milux Holding S.A. | 175 |
44 |
| GI Dynamics, Inc. | 55 |
36 |
| Coloplast A/S | 1927 |
35 |
| Kirk Promotion Ltd. | 149 |
32 |
| Bfkw, LLC | 45 |
29 |
| Merit Medical Systems, Inc. | 981 |
25 |
| Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | 1629 |
24 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1071 |
23 |
| Implantica Patent Ltd. | 268 |
21 |
| Covidien LP | 10647 |
20 |
| Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha | 5216 |
20 |
| Cilag GmbH International | 5813 |
18 |
| Olympus Corporation | 13667 |
17 |
| MetaModix, Inc. | 36 |
17 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 103 |
17 |
| Poly-Med, Inc. | 187 |
15 |
| University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | 2912 |
15 |
| Other owners | 1563 |