EP3421620 - METHOD FOR REFINING MOLTEN STEEL IN VACUUM DEGASSING EQUIPMENT [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.12.2020 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 01.09.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 17.08.2022 [2022/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states JFE Steel Corporation 2-3, Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | [2019/01] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
FUJII Yusuke c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 02 /
NAKAI Yoshie c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 03 /
KIKUCHI Naoki c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 04 /
SHIBUTA Naoya c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 05 /
NAGAI Shinichi c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 06 /
MAEDA Takahiko c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | 07 /
MIKI Yuji c/o Intellectual Property Dept. JFE STEEL CORPORATION 2-3 Uchisaiwai-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0011 / JP | [2019/01] | Representative(s) | Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP Bürkleinstrasse 10 80538 München / DE | [2020/07] |
Former [2019/01] | Haseltine Lake LLP Bürkleinstrasse 10 80538 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 17756317.8 | 15.02.2017 | [2019/01] | WO2017JP05391 | Priority number, date | JP20160032620 | 24.02.2016 Original published format: JP 2016032620 | [2019/01] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2017145877 | Date: | 31.08.2017 | Language: | JA | [2017/35] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3421620 | Date: | 02.01.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3421620 | Date: | 12.02.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/07] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 31.08.2017 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.11.2018 | Classification | IPC: | C21C7/10, C21C7/04, C21C7/064, C21C7/072, C21C7/00, C21C7/068 | [2019/01] | CPC: |
C21C7/10 (EP,KR,RU,US);
C21C7/0037 (EP,US);
C21C7/04 (EP,US);
C21C7/064 (EP,KR,RU,US);
C21C7/0645 (EP,US);
C21C7/068 (EP,RU,US);
C21C7/072 (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 [2019/01] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Validation states | MA | Not yet paid | MD | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VERFAHREN ZUM FRISCHEN VON GESCHMOLZENEM STAHL IN VAKUUMENTGASUNGSAUSRÜSTUNG | [2019/40] | English: | METHOD FOR REFINING MOLTEN STEEL IN VACUUM DEGASSING EQUIPMENT | [2019/01] | French: | PROCÉDÉ D'AFFINAGE D'ACIER FONDU DANS UN ÉQUIPEMENT DE DÉGAZAGE SOUS VIDE | [2019/01] |
Former [2019/01] | VERFAHREN ZUR RAFFINATION VON GESCHMOLZENEM STAHL IN VAKUUMENTGASUNGSAUSRÜSTUNG | Entry into regional phase | 25.07.2018 | Translation filed | 25.07.2018 | National basic fee paid | 25.07.2018 | Search fee paid | 25.07.2018 | Designation fee(s) paid | 25.07.2018 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | deleted | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 25.07.2018 | Examination requested [2019/01] | 17.06.2019 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 09.10.2019 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.12.2019 | Fee for grant paid | 22.12.2019 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 22.12.2019 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Opposition(s) | 13.11.2020 | No opposition filed within time limit [2021/03] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.02.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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