| Bordeaux, Boston, August 30, 2016 – IMPLANET (Euronext: IMPL, FR0010458729, PEA-PME eligible; OTCQX: IMPZY), a medical technology company specializing in vertebral and knee-surgery implants, today announces that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Implanet a patent for the JAZZ® technological platform in the United States.
The JAZZ technological platform’s intellectual protection now covers the braided implant and its tensioning system, the principal element of its instrumentation. Implanet now possesses intellectual property architecture covering the specificities of its JAZZ® platform in the countries defined as priority markets during the Company’s IPO, i.e. the United States, Europe, China, Japan, Australia and South Africa. Implanet is now the only spine surgery player, apart from Zimmer Spine, to have patents for a spinal fixation technical solution enabling the braid’s tension and the implant’s position on the rod to be locked with a single screw.
Régis Le Couedic, Implanet’s Product Development & Manufacturing Director, says: “Being granted this patent in the world’s most advanced medical market represents major recognition by the authorities of the pre-eminence and innovative nature of our spine implant technology. This patent is a guarantee of JAZZ’s future in the United States, where surgeons demand increasingly innovative medical technologies. Our band implant and its tensioning instrument are now protected in our priority markets, and we will continue to extend our field of protection to other innovations currently in late-stage development.”
Ludovic Lastennet, CEO of Implanet, adds: “Obtaining this patent is a major value-creation milestone for Implanet. This protection creates a solid barrier to potential competitors in an American market that places a strong emphasis on intellectual property rights. Thanks to this protection, we have total confidence in our continued acceleration in the United States.”
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