| EP1271018 - Gasket [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 30.08.2013 Database last updated on 18.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 18.04.2014 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): GB | published on 21.05.2014 [2014/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ElringKlinger AG Max-Eyth-Strasse 2 72581 Dettingen / DE | [2003/01] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Walter, Gerhard Lange Gasse 16 72581 Dettingen / DE | 02 /
Schumacher, Thomas Schubertstrasse 10 72585 Riederich / DE | [2003/01] | Representative(s) | Hoeger, Stellrecht & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Uhlandstrasse 14c 70182 Stuttgart / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2012/43] | Hoeger, Stellrecht & Partner Patentanwälte Uhlandstrasse 14c 70182 Stuttgart / DE | ||
| Former [2003/01] | Hoeger, Stellrecht & Partner Uhlandstrasse 14 c 70182 Stuttgart / DE | Application number, filing date | 02012760.1 | 08.06.2002 | [2003/01] | Priority number, date | DE2001131643 | 29.06.2001 Original published format: DE 10131643 | [2003/01] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1271018 | Date: | 02.01.2003 | Language: | DE | [2003/01] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1271018 | Date: | 24.03.2004 | [2004/13] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1271018 | Date: | 24.10.2012 | Language: | DE | [2012/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 10.02.2004 | Classification | IPC: | F16J15/08 | [2003/01] | CPC: |
F16J15/0818 (EP);
F16J2015/0856 (EP);
F16J2015/0862 (EP);
F16J2015/0875 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [2004/51] |
| Former [2003/01] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR | Title | German: | Flachdichtung | [2003/01] | English: | Gasket | [2003/01] | French: | Joint d'étanchéité plat | [2003/01] | Examination procedure | 23.09.2004 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 23.09.2004 | Examination requested [2004/48] | 25.09.2004 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 19.01.2005 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, CH, CY, DK, FI, GR, IE, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR | 10.07.2007 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 03.11.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.08.2011 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 14.12.2011 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.06.2012 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.09.2012 | Fee for grant paid | 13.09.2012 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 10.07.2007 | Opposition(s) | 25.07.2013 | No opposition filed within time limit [2013/40] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.06.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.06.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.03.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 23.06.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 29.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 10.06.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 31.03.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 27.06.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 30.03.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 03.11.2004 | AT   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | BE   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | CH   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | CY   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | DK   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | FI   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | IE   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | NL   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | PT   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | SE   M01   Not yet paid | 03.11.2004 | TR   M01   Not yet paid |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 24.10.2012 | ES | 04.02.2013 | GB | 08.06.2013 | [2014/21] |
| Former [2013/46] | IT | 24.10.2012 | |
| ES | 04.02.2013 | ||
| Former [2013/37] | IT | 24.10.2012 | Documents cited: | Search | [XA] US6062572 (HASEGAWA KEIICHI et al.) | [X] EP0468526 (TAIHO KOGYO CO LTD et al.) | [XA] EP0985862 (ISHIKAWA GASKET et al.) [X] 1-3,12,18 * abstract *[A] 4-11,13-17,19 | [X] EP0834687 (ISHIKAWA GASKET et al.) [X] 1,3,11 * abstract * | [X] US5690343 (TAKADA KAZUKUNI et al.) [X] 1-3,11-13 * abstract * | by applicant | EP0927844 | US4721315 |