Surgical, medical, dental and veterinary apparatus and instruments, artificial limbs, eyes and teeth; orthopaedic articles; suture material, in particular catheter, intracardiac catheter; medical, surgical and orthopaedic implants made of artificial materials, endoprosthesis, stents of all types, in particular for support or extension of blood vessels; biocompatibly coated stents, stents eluting pharmaceutical agents; implantable depots for pharmaceutical agents; bone or joint prosthesis; orthopaedic fixation tools; artificial hearts and parts thereof, artificial cardiac valves; cardiac pacemaker; substrates for cells and tissues as part of artificial bone or joint prosthesis

Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto, in particular for development of materials, coatings, coating technologies and marking technologies for medical, surgical and orthopaedic implants for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes, in particular for stents eluting pharmaceutical agents, stents containing markers, implantable active agent depots; development of substrates for cells or living tissue in biological process technology; development of substrate systems, membrane and separating technology for chemical process technology