EP2971488 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SINTERING PROPPANTS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.08.2019 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 09.04.2018 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 03.08.2022 [2022/31] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Foret Plasma Labs, Llc 3500 Tangle Brush Dr., 110 The Woodlands, TX 77381 / US | [2016/03] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
FORET, Todd 3500 Tangle Brush Drive 110 The Woodlands, TX 77381 / US | [2018/38] |
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FORET, Todd 123 Claremont Lafayette, LA 70508 / US | Representative(s) | Müller-Boré & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB Friedenheimer Brücke 21 80639 München / DE | [2016/03] | Application number, filing date | 14779942.3 | 12.03.2014 | [2016/03] | WO2014US24991 | Priority number, date | US201361777999P | 12.03.2013 Original published format: US 201361777999 P | [2016/03] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2014165255 | Date: | 09.10.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/41] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2971488 | Date: | 20.01.2016 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 09.10.2014 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2016/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2971488 | Date: | 26.09.2018 | Language: | EN | [2018/39] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | KR | 09.10.2014 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 14.12.2015 | Classification | IPC: | E21B43/267, E21B43/17, E21B43/26, C04B38/00, H05H1/32, H05H1/42, H05H1/44, F27B3/08, H05H1/46, H05H1/48 | [2016/03] | CPC: |
H05H1/48 (EP,US);
H05H1/46 (EP,US);
H05H1/42 (EP,US);
H05H1/4652 (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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2016/03] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUM SINTERN VON STÜTZMITTELN | [2016/03] | English: | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SINTERING PROPPANTS | [2016/03] | French: | APPAREIL ET PROCÉDÉ DE FRITTAGE D'AGENTS DE SOUTÈNEMENT | [2016/03] | Entry into regional phase | 17.09.2015 | National basic fee paid | 17.09.2015 | Search fee paid | 17.09.2015 | Designation fee(s) paid | 17.09.2015 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 17.09.2015 | Examination requested [2016/03] | 21.07.2016 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 10.04.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.08.2018 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 16.08.2018 | Fee for grant paid | 16.08.2018 | 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 10.04.2018 | Opposition(s) | 27.06.2019 | No opposition filed within time limit [2019/36] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.03.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.03.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.03.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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