| EP1940726 - METHOD FOR SAFE FILLING IN VALVE-CONTROLLED FILLING SYSTEMS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.01.2011 Database last updated on 21.03.2026 | 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 Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG Christoph-Merian-Ring 23 4153 Reinach / CH | [2008/28] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SETTELMEYER, Rüdiger Schwarzwaldstrasse 10 79279 Vörstetten / DE | 02 /
HEYNE, Richard 4, Rue Des Landes F-68640 Muesbach-le-haut / FR | [2008/28] | Representative(s) | Andres, Angelika Maria Endress+Hauser Group Services (Deutschland) AG+Co. KG Colmarer Straße 6 79576 Weil am Rhein / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/28] | Andres, Angelika Maria Endress + Hauser (DE) Holding GmbH + Co., PatServe - Patentabteilung Colmarer Strasse 6 79576 Weil am Rhein / DE | Application number, filing date | 06807359.2 | 17.10.2006 | [2008/28] | WO2006EP67517 | Priority number, date | DE20051052197 | 28.10.2005 Original published format: DE102005052197 | [2008/28] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2007048742 | Date: | 03.05.2007 | Language: | DE | [2007/18] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1940726 | Date: | 09.07.2008 | Language: | DE | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.05.2007 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2008/28] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1940726 | Date: | 24.03.2010 | Language: | DE | [2010/12] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 03.05.2007 | Classification | IPC: | B67C3/20, B67C3/28 | [2008/28] | CPC: |
B67C3/287 (EP,US);
B67C3/20 (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 [2008/28] | Extension states | AL | Not yet paid | BA | Not yet paid | HR | Not yet paid | MK | Not yet paid | RS | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VERFAHREN ZUM SICHEREN ABFÜLLEN BEI VENTILGESTEUERTEN ABFÜLLANLAGEN | [2008/28] | English: | METHOD FOR SAFE FILLING IN VALVE-CONTROLLED FILLING SYSTEMS | [2008/28] | French: | PROCEDE DE REMPLISSAGE SECURISE POUR INSTALLATIONS DE REMPLISSAGE COMMANDEES PAR SOUPAPES | [2008/28] | Entry into regional phase | 23.04.2008 | National basic fee paid | 23.04.2008 | Designation fee(s) paid | 23.04.2008 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 23.04.2008 | Examination requested [2008/28] | 05.09.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 09.02.2009 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.12.2009 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.02.2010 | Fee for grant paid | 08.02.2010 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.12.2010 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/09] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.10.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.10.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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