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EP0037273
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| EP0037273 - Modification of micro-organisms [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent revoked Status updated on 17.04.1989 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.04.2015 | Change - lapse in a contracting state State(s) deleted from list of lapses: CH, LI | published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES PLC Imperial Chemical House, Millbank London SW1P 3JF / GB | [1981/40] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Barth, Peter Thomas Alvanley House Alvanley Road Helsby Via Warrington WA6 9PX / GB | 02 /
Atherton, Keith Thurston 9 Tarvin CLose Runcorn Cheshire / GB | 03 /
Hennam, John Frederick 38 Solway Grove Beechwood West Runcorn Cheshire / GB | 04 /
Sharpe, Geoffrey Sidney 4 Elmcroft Road North Kilworth Leicestershire LE17 6BX / GB | [1981/40] | Representative(s) | Bate, Bernard James, et al Imperial Chemical Industries PLC Legal Department: Patents PO Box 6 Welwyn Garden City Herts, AL7 1HD / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1981/40] | Bate, Bernard James, et al Imperial Chemical Industries PLC Legal Department: Patents PO Box 6 Welwyn Garden City Herts, AL7 1HD / GB | Application number, filing date | 81301360.4 | 27.03.1981 | [1981/40] | Priority number, date | GB19800010413 | 28.03.1980 Original published format: GB 8010413 | [1981/40] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0037273 | Date: | 07.10.1981 | Language: | EN | [1981/40] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0037273 | Date: | 14.07.1982 | Language: | EN | [1982/28] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0037273 | Date: | 14.01.1987 | Language: | EN | [1987/03] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 10.05.1982 | Classification | IPC: | C12N15/00, C12N1/20, C12P21/02 | [1981/40] | CPC: |
C12N9/0028 (EP);
C07K14/77 (EP);
C12N15/52 (EP);
C12N15/74 (EP);
C12N15/78 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1981/40] | Title | German: | Modifizierung von Mikroorganismen | [1981/40] | English: | Modification of micro-organisms | [1981/40] | French: | Modification de microorganismes | [1981/40] | Examination procedure | 08.03.1982 | Examination requested [1982/19] | 07.12.1983 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M05) | 24.04.1984 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.10.1984 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 14.02.1985 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.08.1985 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.12.1985 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.03.1986 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 08.07.1986 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.07.1986 | Fee for grant paid | 23.07.1986 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
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05.12.1987
ADMISSIBLE HOECHST AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Zentrale Patentanbteilung Gebäude F 821 D-65926 Frankfurt am Main / DE | [N/P] |
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| Opponent(s) | 01
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ADMISSIBLE HOECHST AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Zentrale Patentanbteilung Gebäude F 821 D-65926 Frankfurt am Main / DE | 08.12.1987 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 02.12.1988 | Date of oral proceedings | 10.01.1989 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 10.01.1989 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 20.01.1989 | Legal effect of revocation of patent [1989/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.02.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 04.02.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.02.1985 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.02.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | LU | 31.03.1987 | [2015/21] |
| Former [1999/52] | CH | 14.01.1987 | |
| LI | 14.01.1987 | ||
| LU | 31.03.1987 | ||
| Former [1990/04] | CH | 14.01.1987 | |
| LI | 14.01.1987 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]GB2003926 (ICI LTD); | [E]EP0035831 (ICI PLC [GB]) | [X] - CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Vol. 91, No. 21, November 19, 1979, page 341, Abstract 171422x Columbus, Ohio, US K. JEYASEELAN et al.: "Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance to Facultative Methylotrophs with Plasmid R68.45" & FEMS Microlbiol. Lett. 1979, 6(2), 87-9 | [XP] - 13th International TNO Conference "Biotechnology a Hidden Past, A Shining Future", March 27 and 28, 1980 Published by the Netherlands Central Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, The Hague, NL P.J. SENIOR et al.: "The ICI Single Cell Protein Process", pages 97-101 | [XP] - NATURE, vol. 287, no. 5781, October 2, 1980 CHESHAM, BUCKS, GB J.D. WINDASS et al.: "Improved conversion of methanol to singlecell protein by methylophilus methylotrophus", pages 396-401 |