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EP1486130 - RAW MATERIAL MOISTURE CONTROL METHOD AND MOISTURE CONTROL MACHINE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.09.2014 Database last updated on 03.08.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	13.03.2020	Change - lapse in a contracting state State(s) deleted from list of lapses: TR	published on 15.04.2020 [2020/16]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Japan Tobacco Inc. 2-1, Toranomon 2-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8422 / JP
	[2013/46]
Former [2004/51]	For all designated states Japan Tobacco Inc. 2-1, Toranomon 2-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8422 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / SAKAMOTO, Koji, @c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	02 / UCHIDA, Susumu, @c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	03 / YOKOTA, Katsuhide, @c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	04 / OGAWA, Takashi, @c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	05 / YOSHIMOTO, Kazuo, @c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	[2013/46]
Former [2004/51]	01 / SAKAMOTO, Koji, c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	02 / UCHIDA, Susumu, c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	03 / YOKOTA, Katsuhide, c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	04 / OGAWA, Takashi, c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
	05 / YOSHIMOTO, Kazuo, c/o JAPAN TOBACCO INC. 1-77, Kurobeoka Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0821 / JP
Representative(s)	Isarpatent Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Barth Charles Hassa Peckmann & Partner mbB Postfach 44 01 51 80750 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2013/46]	Isarpatent Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Postfach 44 01 51 80750 München / DE
Former [2008/48]	Reinhard - Skuhra - Weise & Partner Patent- und Rechtsanwälte P.O. Box 440151 80750 München / DE
Former [2008/09]	Reinhard - Skuhra - Weise & Partner Postfach 44 01 51 80750 München / DE
Former [2004/51]	Weise, Reinhard, Dipl.-Ing. Reinhard-Skuhra-Weise & Partner Patentanwälte Postfach 44 01 51 80750 München / DE
Application number, filing date	03712687.7	13.03.2003
	[2004/51]
	WO2003JP03019
Priority number, date	JP20020069856	14.03.2002 Original published format: JP 2002069856
	[2004/51]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO03075689
	Date:	18.09.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/38]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1486130
	Date:	15.12.2004
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 18.09.2003 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2004/51]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1486130
	Date:	13.11.2013
	Language:	EN
	[2013/46]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	18.09.2003
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	16.02.2011
Classification	IPC:	A24B3/04, F26B11/02, F26B11/04, F26B21/06	[2011/11]
	CPC:	F26B11/028 (EP,US); A24B3/04 (EP,US); F26B11/044 (EP,US); F26B21/06 (EP,US); F26B2200/22 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2004/51]	A24B3/04
Designated contracting states	DE, TR [2013/46]
Former [2004/51]	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR
Title	German:	VERFAHREN ZUR KONTROLLE DER FEUCHTIGKEIT VON ROHMATERIAL UND FEUCHTIGKEITSKONTROLLMASCHINE	[2004/51]
	English:	RAW MATERIAL MOISTURE CONTROL METHOD AND MOISTURE CONTROL MACHINE	[2004/51]
	French:	PROCEDE DE REGULATION DE L'HUMIDITE DE MATIERE BRUTE ET MACHINE A CET EFFET	[2004/51]
Entry into regional phase	01.09.2004	Translation filed
	01.09.2004	National basic fee paid
	01.09.2004	Search fee paid
	01.09.2004	Designation fee(s) paid
	01.09.2004	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	10.10.2003	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: JP
	01.09.2004	Examination requested [2004/51]
	25.07.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	24.11.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	16.04.2012	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	03.08.2012	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	30.01.2013	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	06.02.2013	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.07.2013	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	01.10.2013	Fee for grant paid
	01.10.2013	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 25.07.2011
Opposition(s)	14.08.2014	No opposition filed within time limit [2014/43]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	31.03.2005	Renewal fee patent year 03
	31.03.2006	Renewal fee patent year 04
	30.03.2007	Renewal fee patent year 05
	31.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 06
	31.03.2009	Renewal fee patent year 07
	30.03.2010	Renewal fee patent year 08
	31.03.2011	Renewal fee patent year 09
	30.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 10
	28.03.2013	Renewal fee patent year 11
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	deleted
	[2020/16]
Former [2020/15]	TR	13.11.2013
Documents cited:	Search	[XYI]EP0917828 (BAT CIGARETTENFAB GMBH [DE]) [X] 1,5,6 * figures 1, 3 * * paragraph [0022] - paragraph [0030] * * paragraph [0041] - paragraph [0042] * * paragraph [0051] * [Y] 11-13 [I] 2-4,7-10;
		[Y]DE84458 (MAX SCHÖNING IN BERLIN) [Y] 11-13 * the whole document *;
		[XAI]US3905123 (FOWLER RONALD JAMES, et al) [X] 1,5,6 * figure 1 * * column 4, line 19 - column 6, line 38 * [A] 7-9 [I] 2-4;
		[XAI]US5103842 (STRANG JOHN C [US], et al) [X] 1,5,6 * figures 2, 5 * * column 2, line 58 - column 3, line 36 * * column 5, line 26 - column 6, line 4 * [A] 7-9 [I] 2-4;
		[XAI]US4984374 (BIRD DEREK G [GB], et al) [X] 1,5,6 * figures 1-3 * * column 3, line 18 - column 4, line 65 * [A] 7-9 [I] 2-4;
		[A]GB2147982 (BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO) [A] 7 * figures 1, 2 * * page 1, line 30 - page 2, line 44 *;
		[A]NL283185 (PÜTNER-WERKE AG, GERMANY) [A] 10-13 * figures 1-3 * * page 2, line 16 - line 34 *;
		[A]FR674482 (FOND SA DES) [A] 10,11 * figure 1 * * page 1, line 37 - line 60 *;
		[A]DE102355 (HERBERT HEALEY WING (USA)) [A] 12,13 * the whole document *
	International search	[X]JPH07177870 (JAPAN TOBACCO INC);
		[A]JPH07289226 (SANSHU SANGYO KK)

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