EP0033208 - Method of testing the material of a product for defects therein, apparatus for such testing and methods of processing the material employing such a method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.07.1986 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.11.1999 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU | published on 29.12.1999 [1999/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states DOFASCO INC. P.O.Box 460 1330 Burlington Street East Hamilton Ontario L8N 3J5 / CA | [N/P] |
Former [1981/31] | For all designated states DOFASCO INC. P.O.Box 460 1330 Burlington Street East Hamilton Ontario L8N 3J5 / CA | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tait, WIlliam Hugh 36 Organ Crescent Hamilton Ontario L8T 1Y6 / CA | [1981/31] | Representative(s) | Barlow, Roy James, et al J.A. KEMP & CO. 14, South Square, Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1981/31] | Barlow, Roy James, et al J.A. KEMP & CO. 14, South Square, Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX / GB | Application number, filing date | 81300219.3 | 19.01.1981 | [1981/31] | Priority number, date | US19800116122 | 28.01.1980 Original published format: US 116122 | [1981/31] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0033208 | Date: | 05.08.1981 | Language: | EN | [1981/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0033208 | Date: | 30.12.1981 | Language: | EN | [1981/52] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0033208 | Date: | 04.09.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/36] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.10.1981 | Classification | IPC: | G01N29/04, G01N19/08 | [1981/31] | CPC: |
G01N29/14 (EP,US);
G01N2291/0234 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1981/31] | Title | German: | Verfahren zum Prüfen eines Produktes auf Materialfehler, Vorrichtung zum Prüfen und Verfahren zum Behandeln des Materials nach dem Prüfverfahren | [1981/31] | English: | Method of testing the material of a product for defects therein, apparatus for such testing and methods of processing the material employing such a method | [1981/31] | French: | Procédé et dispositif d'examen d'un produit quant à des défauts du matériau et procédés pour traiter le matériau d'après le procédé d'examen | [1981/31] | Examination procedure | 24.05.1982 | Examination requested [1982/30] | 03.08.1983 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 03.12.1983 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.02.1984 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.07.1984 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.10.1984 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 17.01.1985 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.03.1985 | Fee for grant paid | 21.03.1985 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.06.1986 | No opposition filed within time limit [1986/35] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 18.01.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.01.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 11.01.1985 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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Former [1989/19] | CH | 04.09.1985 | |
LI | 04.09.1985 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US3097523 ; | [A]US3548648 (WEICHBRODT BJORN, et al); | DE2116522 [ ] (LICENTIA GMBH) | [A] - FACHBERICHTE HÜTTENPRAXIS METALLWEITERVERARBEITUNG, Vol. 15, No. 5, 1977 "Automatische Ultraschall-Prüfung von Grobblechen" page 495 |