EP1882949 - Automated tube capper/decapper [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.11.2010 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.10.2012 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): TR | published on 21.11.2012 [2012/47] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states The Automation Partnership (Cambridge) Limited York Way Royston Hertfordshire SG8 5WY / GB | [2008/05] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Owen, Stephen The Old Station Old North Road Bourn, Cambridgeshire CB3 7TZ / GB | 02 /
Owen, Justin 4 Fordham Terrace The Causeway Therfield, Hertfordshire SG8 9PP / GB | 03 /
Bargh, Adrian Neil Glenogle 9 Heathfield Royston, Hertfordshire SG8 5BW / GB | [2008/05] | Representative(s) | Brunner, Michael John Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street London EC2A 2ES / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2008/05] | Brunner, Michael John Gill Jennings & Every LLP Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH / GB | Application number, filing date | 06117864.6 | 26.07.2006 | [2008/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1882949 | Date: | 30.01.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1882949 | Date: | 20.01.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/03] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.02.2007 | Classification | IPC: | G01N35/02, B67B7/18 | [2008/05] | CPC: |
G01N35/026 (EP,US);
B01L3/50825 (EP,US);
G01N2035/0405 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2008/05] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zum automatischen Verschliessen und Öffnen von Probenröhrchen | [2008/05] | English: | Automated tube capper/decapper | [2008/05] | French: | Appareil pour l'ouverture et la fermeture automatique de tubes d'essai | [2008/05] | Examination procedure | 22.03.2007 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 23.03.2007 | Examination requested [2008/05] | 17.07.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.08.2008 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.06.2009 | Date of oral proceedings | 16.06.2009 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 16.06.2009 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 22.06.2009 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.09.2009 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.12.2009 | Fee for grant paid | 04.12.2009 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.10.2010 | No opposition filed within time limit [2010/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.08.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.12.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.07.2008 | 03   M06   Fee paid on   28.08.2008 | 31.07.2009 | 04   M06   Fee paid on   11.12.2009 |
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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 | AT | 20.01.2010 | BE | 20.01.2010 | CY | 20.01.2010 | CZ | 20.01.2010 | EE | 20.01.2010 | FI | 20.01.2010 | IT | 20.01.2010 | LT | 20.01.2010 | LV | 20.01.2010 | PL | 20.01.2010 | RO | 20.01.2010 | SE | 20.01.2010 | SI | 20.01.2010 | SK | 20.01.2010 | TR | 20.01.2010 | BG | 20.04.2010 | GR | 21.04.2010 | ES | 01.05.2010 | IS | 20.05.2010 | PT | 20.05.2010 | HU | 21.07.2010 | IE | 26.07.2010 | LU | 26.07.2010 | MC | 31.07.2010 | [2012/47] |
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Former [2010/30] | AT | 20.01.2010 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]GB2010789 (ALUMINUM CO OF AMERICA) [Y] 1-15 * claims 1-3 * * abstract * * figures 1-3,5-9,5a,5b * * page 1, line 5 - line 9 * * page 1, line 126 - page 2, line 32 * * page 2, line 53 - page 3, line 67 * * page 4, line 11 - line 63 *; | [A]GB2129409 (SHIBUYA KOGYO CO LTD) [A] 1-15 * abstract * * figure 2 * * page 1, line 115 - page 2, line 6 * * page 3, line 53 - line 71 *; | [A]EP0205803 (BOSCH GMBH ROBERT [DE]) [A] 1,14,15 * claims 1-7 * * abstract * * figure 1 *; | [A]US6105343 (GROVE MICHAEL A [US], et al) [A] 1,14,15 * abstract * * claims 1,20 * * figure 1 * * column 2, line 49 - line 65 ** column 3, line 33 - column 4, line 6 *; | [A]US6216340 (FASSBIND WALTER [CH], et al) [A] 1,14,15 * claims 1,2 * * abstract * * figures 1-3,7-17 * * column 2, line 1 - line 63 * * column 3, line 58 - column 4, line 50 * * column 5, line 4 - line 32 * * column 6, line 13 - line 30 *; | [A]US2003041560 (KEMNITZ TADEUSZ [US]) [A] 1-15 * abstract * * paragraphs [0006] - [0010] - [0016] , [0017] , [0057] *; | [A]WO2005110600 (NUNC AS [DK], et al) [A] 1,14,15 * abstract * * figures 2A,2B,5,12,14A,14B,14C,14D * * page 1, line 21 - page 2, line 23 * * page 4, line 15 - page 5, line 12 * * page 6, line 12 - page 7, line 5 * * page 9, line 28 - page 10, line 8 * * page 10, line 26 - line 31 * * page 12, line 31 - page 13, line 7 *; | [Y]WO2006029083 (TOMALESKY RICHARD [US], et al) [Y] 1-15 * claims 1,7,9-11,22,23,26,27,41,44,46,48-50 * * abstract * * page 2, line 17 - line 21 * * figures 2-6 * * page 3, line 7 - line 11 * * page 4, line 23 - page 5, line 3 * * page 6, line 26 - line 29 * * page 7, line 26 - page 8, line 22 * * page 9, line 7 - page 10, line 14 * * page 11, line 27 - page 12, line 4 * * page 12, line 14 - line 23 *; | [A]US2006130597 (BERNARD CHRISTOPHER J [US], et al) [A] 1,14,15 * the whole document * | Examination | GB111011 | US2760391 | US3483997 | US3589103 | DE2132244 | US4178732 | DE4232619 | WO9508068 | EP0677482 | WO2006072143 | WO2007053853 | by applicant | DE2132244 | WO2006029083 |