EP2330669 - Method for restoring performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cell [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.10.2014 Database last updated on 13.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.06.2016 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 20.07.2016 [2016/29] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Panasonic Corporation 1006, Oaza Kadoma Kadoma-shi Osaka 571-8501 / JP | [N/P] |
Former [2011/23] | For all designated states Panasonic Corporation 1006, Oaza Kadoma Kadoma-shi Osaka 571-8501 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Gyoten, Hisaaki c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower, 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | 02 /
Kanbara, Teruhisa c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower, 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | 03 /
Uchida, Makoto c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower, 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | 04 /
Hatoh, Kazuhito c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower, 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | 05 /
Sakai, Osamu c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower, 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | [2013/52] |
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Gyoten, Hisaaki c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | ||
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Kanbara, Teruhisa c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | |||
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Uchida, Makoto c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | |||
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Hatoh, Kazuhito c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | |||
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Sakai, Osamu c/o Panasonic Corporation Intellectual Property Rights Operations Company IP Development Center 7F 0BP Panasonic Tower 1-61 Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 540-6207 / JP | Representative(s) | O'Brien, Simon Warwick, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2014/18] | O'Brien, Simon Warwick, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | ||
Former [2011/23] | Bradley, Josephine Mary, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | Application number, filing date | 10011707.6 | 14.09.2000 | [2011/23] | Priority number, date | JP19990262971 | 17.09.1999 Original published format: JP 26297199 | [2011/23] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2330669 | Date: | 08.06.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/23] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2330669 | Date: | 25.12.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/52] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.05.2011 | Classification | IPC: | H01M8/04, H01M8/10 | [2011/23] | CPC: |
H01M8/0662 (EP,US);
H01M8/02 (KR);
H01M8/0258 (EP,KR,US);
H01M8/0267 (EP,KR,US);
H01M8/0273 (US);
H01M8/04104 (EP,US);
H01M8/043 (EP,KR);
H01M8/241 (EP,KR,US);
H01M8/2483 (EP,KR,US);
H01M2300/0082 (EP,US);
H01M8/04679 (EP,US);
H01M8/0488 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [2011/23] | Title | German: | Methode für die Wiederherstellung der Leistungsfähigkeit von Polymer-Elektrolyt-Brennstoffzelle | [2011/23] | English: | Method for restoring performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cell | [2011/23] | French: | Méthode de rétablissement de la performance de la cellule à combustible à électrolyte polymère | [2011/23] | Examination procedure | 07.12.2011 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 07.12.2011 | Examination requested [2012/03] | 26.07.2013 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.11.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 18.11.2013 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP00961038.7 / EP1237219 | EP04024041.8 / EP1536502 | 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 (EP20000961038) is 21.05.2004 | Opposition(s) | 26.09.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/49] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 01.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 26.09.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 17.09.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 13 | 16.09.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 14 |
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