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EP4012020 - TRANSGENIC HYDROGENOPHILUS BACTERIUM PRODUCING LACTIC ACID [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Request for examination was made Status updated on 13.05.2022 Database last updated on 21.03.2026
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 19.02.2021
Most recent event Tooltip	15.07.2025	New entry: Renewal fee paid
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Institute Co., Ltd. 2-4-32 Aomi Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064 / JP
	[2022/24]
Inventor(s)	01 / YUKAWA Hideaki c/o Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Institute Co., Ltd., 2-4-32 Aomi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064 / JP
	02 / OHTANI Naoto c/o Utilization of Carbon Dioxide Institute Co., Ltd., 2-4-32 Aomi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064 / JP
	[2022/24]
Representative(s)	Kraus & Lederer PartGmbB Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 80539 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2022/24]	Lederer & Keller Patentanwälte Partnerschaft mbB Unsöldstraße 2 80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date	19941249.5	09.08.2019
	[2022/24]
	WO2019JP31741
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2021028993
	Date:	18.02.2021
	Language:	JA
	[2021/07]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP4012020
	Date:	15.06.2022
	Language:	EN
	[2022/24]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	18.02.2021
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	19.07.2022
Classification	IPC:	C12N1/21, C12P7/56, C12N15/53	[2022/24]
	CPC:	C12N9/0006 (EP,US); C12N1/205 (EP); C12P7/56 (EP,US); C12Y101/01027 (US); C12Y101/01037 (US); C12R2001/01 (EP)
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 [2022/24]
Title	German:	MILCHSÄURE-PRODUZIERENDES TRANSGENES HYDROGENOPHILUS-BAKTERIUM	[2022/24]
	English:	TRANSGENIC HYDROGENOPHILUS BACTERIUM PRODUCING LACTIC ACID	[2022/24]
	French:	BACTÉRIE DU GENRE HYDROGENOPHILUS TRANSGÉNIQUE PRODUISANT DE L'ACIDE LACTIQUE	[2022/24]
Biological material	This application mentions deposited biological material, check the file for details
Entry into regional phase	20.01.2022	Translation filed
	20.01.2022	National basic fee paid
	20.01.2022	Search fee paid
	20.01.2022	Designation fee(s) paid
	20.01.2022	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	20.01.2022	Examination requested [2022/24]
	03.02.2023	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	03.02.2023	Date on which the examining division has become responsible
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	20.01.2022	Renewal fee patent year 03
	24.06.2022	Renewal fee patent year 04
	31.05.2023	Renewal fee patent year 05
	03.07.2024	Renewal fee patent year 06
	14.07.2025	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:	Search	[Y] DATABASE UniProtKB/TrEMBL [online] UniProt Consortium; 31 July 2019 (2019-07-31), ARAI H: "Lactate utilization protein {ECO:0000313\|EMBL:BBD77954.1}", XP055939959, Database accession no. A0A2Z6DZH7 [Y] 1-8 * abstract *
		[Y] Y. CHAI ET AL: "A Widely Conserved Gene Cluster Required for Lactate Utilization in Bacillus subtilis and Its Involvement in Biofilm Formation", JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY, vol. 191, no. 8, 15 April 2009 (2009-04-15), US, pages 2423 - 2430, XP055658699, ISSN: 0021-9193, DOI: 10.1128/JB.01464-08 [Y] 1-8 * Whole doc., in partic. Fig.1; p.2426; p.2428, col.2 (sentence relating to Ref.14) * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.01464-08
		[A] WILLIAM C HWANG ET AL: "LUD, a new protein domain associated with lactate utilization", BMC BIOINFORMATICS, BIOMED CENTRAL , LONDON, GB, vol. 14, no. 1, 26 November 2013 (2013-11-26), pages 341, XP021167483, ISSN: 1471-2105, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-341 [A] 1-8 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-341
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		[A] ISHI MASAHARU: "Basic research toward material production through the utilization of metabolic characteristics of hydrogen-oxidizing microorganisms", RESEARCH REPORT OF THE IWATANI NAOJI FOUNDATION, vol. 41, no. 2, 1 August 2018 (2018-08-01), pages 57 - 59, XP009527773, ISSN: 0287-3532 [A] 1-8 * , "1. Introduction" column, "2. Results and discussion" column) *
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