EP3245508 - APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING SENSOR ACCURACY [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.05.2022 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 28.07.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 27.04.2024 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 29.05.2024 [2024/22] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ecolab USA Inc. 1 Ecolab Place St. Paul, MN 55102 / US | [2017/47] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
XIONG, Kun 2516 Nottingham Lane Naperville, Illinois 60565 / US | 02 /
DAVIS, Brandon M. 747 Spires Dr. Oswego, Illinois 60543 / US | [2017/47] | Representative(s) | Michalski Hüttermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Kaistraße 16A 40221 Düsseldorf / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2017/47] | Michalski Hüttermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Speditionstraße 21 40221 Düsseldorf / DE | Application number, filing date | 16737695.3 | 12.01.2016 | [2017/47] | WO2016US12955 | Priority number, date | US201514594625 | 12.01.2015 Original published format: US201514594625 | [2017/47] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2016115073 | Date: | 21.07.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/29] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3245508 | Date: | 22.11.2017 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.07.2016 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2017/47] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3245508 | Date: | 30.06.2021 | Language: | EN | [2021/26] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | IL | 21.07.2016 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.09.2018 | Classification | IPC: | G01N27/38, G01N33/18, G01D11/30, B08B5/02 | [2017/47] | CPC: |
G01N33/18 (EP,KR,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 [2017/47] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Validation states | MA | Not yet paid | MD | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG ZUR AUFRECHTERHALTUNG VON SENSORGENAUIGKEIT | [2017/47] | English: | APPARATUS FOR MAINTAINING SENSOR ACCURACY | [2017/47] | French: | APPAREIL PERMETTANT DE MAINTENIR LA PRÉCISION D'UN CAPTEUR | [2017/47] | Entry into regional phase | 10.08.2017 | National basic fee paid | 10.08.2017 | Search fee paid | 10.08.2017 | Designation fee(s) paid | 10.08.2017 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 10.08.2017 | Examination requested [2017/47] | 10.08.2017 | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 09.04.2019 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 12.01.2021 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 19.05.2021 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 20.05.2021 | Fee for grant paid | 20.05.2021 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.03.2022 | No opposition filed within time limit [2022/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 15.01.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 15.01.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 14.01.2020 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.01.2021 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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