EP2473701 - SEALING APPARATUS AND METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 20.06.2014 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 14.11.2018 [2018/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states National Oilwell Varco UK Limited Martin Street Audenshaw Manchester M34 5JA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2012/28] | For all designated states National Oilwell Varco UK Limited Martin Street Audenshaw Manchester M34 5JA / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
WOOD, Carl Richard Cattie Farmhouse Whitehouse Alford Aberdeenshire AB33 8DR / GB | [2013/14] |
Former [2012/28] | 01 /
WOOD, Carl Richard Cattie Farmhouse Whitehouse Alford Aberdeenshire AB33 8DR / GB | Representative(s) | Allan, James Stewart Murgitroyd & Company Scotland House 165-169 Scotland Street Glasgow G5 8PL / GB | [2012/28] | Application number, filing date | 10810867.1 | 01.09.2010 | WO2010GB51438 | Priority number, date | GB20090015085 | 01.09.2009 Original published format: GB 0915085 | [2012/28] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2011027149 | Date: | 10.03.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/10] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2473701 | Date: | 11.07.2012 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 10.03.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2012/28] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2473701 | Date: | 14.08.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/33] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 06.10.2011 | Classification | IPC: | E21B33/072 | [2012/28] | CPC: |
E21B33/072 (EP,US);
Y10T137/0491 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2012/28] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | RS | Not yet paid | Title | German: | ABDICHTVORRICHTUNG UND -VERFAHREN | [2012/28] | English: | SEALING APPARATUS AND METHOD | [2012/28] | French: | APPAREIL D'ÉTANCHÉITÉ ET PROCÉDÉ | [2012/28] | Entry into regional phase | 02.02.2012 | National basic fee paid | 02.02.2012 | Designation fee(s) paid | 02.02.2012 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 02.02.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 02.02.2012 | Examination requested [2012/28] | 04.03.2013 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.06.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 28.06.2013 | 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 04.03.2013 | Opposition(s) | 15.05.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.09.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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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 | HU | 01.09.2010 | AL | 14.08.2013 | AT | 14.08.2013 | BE | 14.08.2013 | BG | 14.08.2013 | CY | 14.08.2013 | CZ | 14.08.2013 | EE | 14.08.2013 | ES | 14.08.2013 | FI | 14.08.2013 | HR | 14.08.2013 | LT | 14.08.2013 | LV | 14.08.2013 | MC | 14.08.2013 | MK | 14.08.2013 | MT | 14.08.2013 | PL | 14.08.2013 | RO | 14.08.2013 | SE | 14.08.2013 | SI | 14.08.2013 | SK | 14.08.2013 | SM | 14.08.2013 | TR | 14.08.2013 | LU | 01.09.2013 | GR | 15.11.2013 | IS | 14.12.2013 | PT | 16.12.2013 | [2018/46] |
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LU | 01.09.2013 | ||
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