EP3572123 - APPARATUS FOR TREATING A TUMOR BY AN ELECTRIC FIELD [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.04.2021 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | |
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Former | The application has been published Status updated on 25.10.2019 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.09.2023 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): SI | published on 11.10.2023 [2023/41] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Novocure GmbH Park 6 6039 Root D4 / CH | [2020/33] |
Former [2019/48] | For all designated states Novocure Limited Le Masurier House La Rue Le Masurier St. Helier, Jersey (Channel Islands) JE2 4YE / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
PALTI, Yoram 51 Ruth Street 34404 Haifa / IL | [2019/48] | Representative(s) | Boden, Keith McMurray, et al Vertus Professional Services Ltd 1 Highlands Road Reigate, RH2 0LA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2019/48] | Boden, Keith McMurray Fry Heath & Spence LLP Unit A, Faraday Court Faraday Road Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9PU / GB | Application number, filing date | 19183539.6 | 01.10.2003 | [2019/48] | Priority number, date | US20020263329 | 02.10.2002 Original published format: US 263329 | US20020285313 | 31.10.2002 Original published format: US 285313 | US20020315576 | 10.12.2002 Original published format: US 315576 | [2019/48] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3572123 | Date: | 27.11.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3572123 | Date: | 10.06.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/24] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.10.2019 | Classification | IPC: | A61N1/40 | [2019/48] | CPC: |
A61B18/12 (EP,US);
A61N1/18 (EP,US);
A61N1/40 (EP,US);
A61B18/14 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00084 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2019/49] |
Former [2019/48] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG ZUR BEHANDLUNG EINES TUMORS DURCH EIN ELEKTRISCHES FELD | [2019/48] | English: | APPARATUS FOR TREATING A TUMOR BY AN ELECTRIC FIELD | [2019/48] | French: | APPAREIL DE TRAITEMENT D'UNE TUMEUR À L'AIDE D'UN CHAMP ÉLECTRIQUE | [2019/48] | Examination procedure | 28.10.2019 | Examination requested [2019/49] | 28.10.2019 | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 25.11.2019 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 15.04.2020 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.04.2020 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 29.04.2020 | Fee for grant paid | 29.04.2020 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP03799042.1 / EP1545704 | Opposition(s) | 11.03.2021 | No opposition filed within time limit [2021/20] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 13 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 14 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 15 | 30.10.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 16 | 06.09.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 17 |
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