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EP2443919 - Watermelon with improved processing qualities [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 26.10.2018 Database last updated on 19.10.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	26.10.2018	Refusal of application	published on 28.11.2018 [2018/48]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. 800 North Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis MO 63167 / US
	[2013/45]
Former [2012/17]	For all designated states Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. 2700 Camino Del Sol Oxnard, CA 93030 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / Tolla, Greg 1881 Hardy Drive Woodland, CA 95776 / US
	02 / Juarez, Benito 521 4th Street Davis, CA 95616 / US
	03 / McCuistion, Fred 2601 Emmett Drive Tifton, GA 31794 / US
	[2012/17]
Representative(s)	Uexküll & Stolberg Partnerschaft von Patent- und Rechtsanwälten mbB Beselerstraße 4 22607 Hamburg / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2012/17]	UEXKÜLL & STOLBERG Patentanwälte Beselerstraße 4 22607 Hamburg / DE
Application number, filing date	12151233.9	01.07.2005
	[2012/17]
Priority number, date	US20040584964P	02.07.2004 Original published format: US 584964 P
	US20040972190	22.10.2004 Original published format: US 972190
	AU20050201372	31.03.2005 Original published format: AU 2005201372
	[2012/17]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP2443919
	Date:	25.04.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/17]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP2443919
	Date:	18.07.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/29]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	15.06.2012
Classification	IPC:	A01H5/00, A01H5/08	[2012/29]
	CPC:	A01H5/08 (EP,US); A01H6/342 (EP,US); A01H1/10 (EP,US); A01H3/04 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2012/17]	A01H5/00, A01H5/08, A01H1/02
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 [2012/17]
Title	German:	Wassermelone mit verbesserten Verarbeitungsqualitäten	[2012/17]
	English:	Watermelon with improved processing qualities	[2012/17]
	French:	Pastèque aux qualités améliorées	[2012/17]
Biological material	This application mentions deposited biological material, check the file for details
Examination procedure	18.01.2013	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	18.01.2013	Examination requested [2013/09]
	08.09.2015	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	16.03.2016	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	14.06.2018	Application refused, date of legal effect [2018/48]
	14.06.2018	Date of oral proceedings
	05.07.2018	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	10.07.2018	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2018/48]
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP05764293.6 / EP1765059
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 (EP20050764293) is 14.01.2010
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	07.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 03
	07.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 04
	07.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 05
	07.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 06
	07.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 07
	25.07.2012	Renewal fee patent year 08
	29.07.2013	Renewal fee patent year 09
	28.07.2014	Renewal fee patent year 10
	27.07.2015	Renewal fee patent year 11
	27.07.2016	Renewal fee patent year 12
	27.07.2017	Renewal fee patent year 13
	27.07.2018	Renewal fee patent year 14
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