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EP1978206
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| EP1978206 - Method and apparatus for controlling wellbore equipment [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.08.2013 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.08.2013 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 25.09.2013 [2013/39] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. 515 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 600 Houston Texas 77027 / US | [2012/42] |
| Former [2008/41] | For all designated states WEATHERFORD/LAMB, INC. 515 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 600 Houston Texas 77027 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Koithan, Thomas 7515 Wildwood Brook Court Houston, Texas 77095 / US | [2008/41] | Representative(s) | Talbot-Ponsonby, Daniel Frederick, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 2nd Floor, Wytham Court 11 West Way Oxford OX2 0JB / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2012/42] | Talbot-Ponsonby, Daniel Frederick, et al Marks & Clerk LLP Fletcher House Heatley Road The Oxford Science Park Oxford OX4 4GE / GB | ||
| Former [2011/07] | Talbot-Ponsonby, Daniel Frederick, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 4220 Nash Court Oxford Business Park South Oxford OX4 2RU / GB | ||
| Former [2008/41] | Draper, Martyn John Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | Application number, filing date | 08009538.3 | 06.02.2004 | [2008/41] | Priority number, date | US20030360547 | 06.02.2003 Original published format: US 360547 | [2008/41] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1978206 | Date: | 08.10.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/41] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1978206 | Date: | 15.10.2008 | [2008/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1978206 | Date: | 17.10.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/42] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.09.2008 | Classification | IPC: | E21B19/16 | [2008/41] | CPC: |
E21B19/166 (EP,US);
E21B44/00 (EP,US);
E21B47/00 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | GB, IT, NL [2008/41] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Steuerung von Bohrlochgeräten | [2008/41] | English: | Method and apparatus for controlling wellbore equipment | [2008/41] | French: | Procédé et appareil pour contrôler un équipement de puits de forage | [2008/41] | Examination procedure | 26.05.2008 | Examination requested [2008/41] | 30.03.2009 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 28.09.2011 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 06.02.2012 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.05.2012 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.09.2012 | Fee for grant paid | 06.09.2012 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP04250651.9 / EP1445419 | 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 (EP20040250651) is 12.03.2008 | Opposition(s) | 18.07.2013 | No opposition filed within time limit [2013/39] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.05.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.05.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 26.05.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.02.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 16.02.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 15.02.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 15.02.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4592125 (SKENE WILLIAM [GB]) [A] 1-15* the whole document *; | [A]US4738145 (VINCENT DARRELL L [US], et al) [A] 1-15 * column 2, lines 6-10; figures 2a-2c * * column 3, lines 50-52 * * column 4, lines 59,60,64,65 * * column 5, lines 55-60 * * column 6, lines 26-28 * * column 11, lines 44-47 *; | [A]US5233742 (GRAY N MONROE [US], et al) [A] 1-15 * the whole document *; | [A]US5245265 (CLAY ROBERT A [GB]) [A] 1-15 * the whole document *; | [A]US5402688 (OKADA YOSHITORA [JP], et al) [A] 1-15 * column 2, lines 59-61; figure 1 * * column 3, lines 32,33,44-46 * * column 5, lines 12-14 *; | [A]EP1170086 (OHMI TADAHIRO [JP], et al) [A] 1-15 * column 2, lines 31-33; figure 1 * * column 3, line 35 * | by applicant | US4738145 | US5402688 | EP1170086 |