| EP0046635 - Process for the preparation of cimetidine [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Opposition rejected Status updated on 28.01.1988 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.11.1999 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 29.12.1999 [1999/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ORION-YHTYMÄ OY P.O. Box 425 20101 Turku / FI | [N/P] |
| Former [1982/09] | For all designated states ORION-YHTYMÄ OY P.O. Box 425 SF-20101 Turku / FI | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kairisalo, Pekka Juhani Uiskotie 25 SF-00950 Helsinki 95 / FI | 02 /
Honkanen, Erkki Juhani Vanha Viertotie 1A 13 SF-00300 Helsinki 30 / FI | [1982/09] | Representative(s) | Warden, John Christopher, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co. 12-15, Fetter Lane London EC4A 1PL / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1983/10] | Warden, John Christopher, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co. 12-15, Fetter Lane London EC4A 1PL / GB | ||
| Former [1982/09] | Warden, John Christopher R.G.C. Jenkins & Co. 12-15, Fetter Lane London EC4A 1PL / GB | Application number, filing date | 81303378.4 | 23.07.1981 | [1982/09] | Priority number, date | FI19800002649 | 21.08.1980 Original published format: FI 802649 | [1982/09] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0046635 | Date: | 03.03.1982 | Language: | EN | [1982/09] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0046635 | Date: | 03.07.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/27] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.12.1981 | Classification | IPC: | C07D233/64 | [1982/09] | CPC: |
C07D233/64 (EP);
C07C323/44 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | AT, CH, DE, FR, GB, LI, LU, NL, SE [1982/09] | Title | German: | Verfahren zur Herstellung von Cimetidin | [1982/09] | English: | Process for the preparation of cimetidine | [1982/09] | French: | Procédé pour la préparation de cimétidine | [1982/09] | Examination procedure | 26.07.1982 | Examination requested [1982/40] | 07.02.1984 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.06.1984 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.09.1984 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 14.12.1984 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.03.1985 | Fee for grant paid | 08.03.1985 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
01.04.1986
23.04.1986
ADMISSIBLE Smith Kline & French Laboratories Limited Mundells Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL7 1EY / GB Opponent's representative Waters, David Martin SmithKline Beecham plc Corporate Intellectual Property SB House Great West Road Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9BD / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/22] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
01.04.1986
23.04.1986
ADMISSIBLE Smith Kline & French Laboratories Limited Mundells Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL7 1EY / GB Opponent's representative Waters, David Martin, Dr. SmithKline Beecham plc Corporate Intellectual Property SB House Great West Road Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9BD / GB | 10.06.1986 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 25.09.1986 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 24.10.1986 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M03) | 29.01.1987 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 16.10.1987 | Date of despatch of rejection of opposition | 26.10.1987 | Legal effect of rejection of opposition [1988/11] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.07.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.07.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | 31.07.1985 | [1999/52] | Documents cited: | Search | ES458139 | CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Vol. 91, No. 21, 19. November 1979, Columbus, Ohio, USA Laboratorio Estedi S.L. "N-Cyano-N'-Methyl-N" -2- ((4-Methyl-5-Imdazolyl) - Methylthio) Ethyl-Guanidine" pahe 667, column 1, Abstract No. 175354z & ES-A-458 139 (01-06-1978) |