EP0173684 - SEGMENTED LABYRINTH-TYPE SHAFT SEALING SYSTEM FOR FLUID TURBINES [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 26.04.1996 Database last updated on 09.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BRANDON, Ronald E. 1734 Lenox Road Schenectady, NY 12308 / US | [1986/11] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
see applicant ... | [1986/11] | Representative(s) | Tregear, George Herbert Benjamin, et al LLOYD WISE, TREGEAR & CO Norman House 105-109 Strand London WC2R 0AE / GB | [1986/11] | Application number, filing date | 84901497.2 | 08.03.1984 | [1986/11] | WO1984US00375 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO8503991 | Date: | 12.09.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/20] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0173684 | Date: | 12.03.1986 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 12.09.1985 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1986/11] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0173684 | Date: | 07.02.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/06] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0173684 | Date: | 12.06.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/24] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 12.09.1985 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.09.1986 | Classification | IPC: | F16J15/44 | [1986/11] | CPC: |
F16J15/441 (EP);
F01D11/02 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, LI, LU, NL, SE [1986/11] | Title | German: | MIT ABDICHTSEGMENTEN VERSEHENE LABYRINTHDICHTUNG FÜR HYDRAULISCHE STRÖMUNGSMASCHINEN | [1986/11] | English: | SEGMENTED LABYRINTH-TYPE SHAFT SEALING SYSTEM FOR FLUID TURBINES | [1986/11] | French: | SYSTEME D'ETANCHEITE D'ARBRES DE TYPE A LABYRINTHE SEGMENTE POUR TURBINES HYDRAULIQUES | [1986/11] | Entry into regional phase | 05.11.1985 | National basic fee paid | 05.11.1985 | Search fee paid | 05.11.1985 | Designation fee(s) paid | 05.03.1986 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 05.03.1986 | Examination requested [1986/24] | 17.08.1987 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08) | 29.10.1987 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time | 20.04.1988 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.09.1988 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 12.01.1989 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 28.03.1989 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 04.08.1989 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 27.10.1989 | Fee for grant paid | 27.10.1989 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
05.11.1990
19.12.1990
ADMISSIBLE Asea Brown Boveri AG Haselstr.16 Postfach CH-5401 Baden / CH | [N/P] |
Former [1991/01] | |||
Opponent(s) | 01
05.11.1990
19.12.1990
ADMISSIBLE Asea Brown Boveri AG Haslerstr.16 Postfach CH-5401 Baden / CH | 13.12.1990 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 13.06.1991 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 12.08.1991 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 22.08.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M01) | 20.01.1992 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 22.11.1995 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 08.12.1995 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 15.01.1996 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 16.04.1996 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 09.03.1992 | Appeal received No. T0210/92 | 18.05.1992 | Statement of grounds filed | 18.02.1993 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1993/08] | 21.04.1993 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1993/17] | 28.09.1994 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1994/40] | 07.02.1995 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1995/06] | 07.03.1995 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M02) [1995/10] | 02.05.1995 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1995/18] | 22.11.1995 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 22.03.1994 | Date of oral proceedings | 07.04.1994 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Request for re-establishment of rights: | 25.11.1987 | Date of receipt | 10.03.1988 | Request accepted | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.03.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.11.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 05.08.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.03.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.03.1987 | 04   M06   Fee paid on   13.11.1987 | 31.03.1988 | 05   M06   Fee paid on   05.08.1988 |
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