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EP0348840 - Humidistat [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.01.1997 Database last updated on 09.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	30.11.2007	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state	published on 02.01.2008 [2008/01]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION 401 North Lake Street Neenah Wisconsin 54956-0349 / US
	[N/P]
Former [1991/43]	For all designated states KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION 401 North Lake Street Neenah, Wisconsin 54956-0349 / US
Former [1990/01]	For all designated states KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION 401 North Lake Street Neenah Wisconsin 54956-0349 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / Durocher, Donald F. 9735, Hillside Drive Roswell Georgia 30076 / US
	[1990/01]
Representative(s)	Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstrasse 4 80802 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [1990/01]	Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Maximilianstrasse 58 D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date	89111461.3	23.06.1989
	[1990/01]
Priority number, date	US19880212639	28.06.1988 Original published format: US 212639
	US19890351240	16.05.1989 Original published format: US 351240
	[1990/01]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0348840
	Date:	03.01.1990
	Language:	EN
	[1990/01]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0348840
	Date:	13.05.1992
	Language:	EN
	[1992/20]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0348840
	Date:	13.03.1996
	Language:	EN
	[1996/11]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	25.03.1992
Classification	IPC:	A24F25/02, B65D81/18, A61L9/12	[1992/20]
	CPC:	A24F25/02 (EP,US); B65D81/18 (EP,US); B65D85/1081 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [1990/01]	A24F25/02, A61L9/12
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1990/01]
Title	German:	Befeuchter	[1990/01]
	English:	Humidistat	[1990/01]
	French:	Humidificateur	[1990/01]
Examination procedure	17.09.1992	Examination requested [1992/46]
	14.02.1994	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	24.06.1994	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	20.07.1994	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	08.11.1994	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	28.04.1995	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	19.09.1995	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	11.12.1995	Fee for grant paid
	11.12.1995	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	14.12.1996	No opposition filed within time limit [1997/10]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	22.04.1991	Renewal fee patent year 03
	18.05.1992	Renewal fee patent year 04
	03.05.1993	Renewal fee patent year 05
	30.05.1994	Renewal fee patent year 06
	09.06.1995	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	ES	13.03.1996
	GR	13.03.1996
	IT	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	NL	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
	LU	30.06.1996
	[2008/01]
Former [2003/07]	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	ES	13.03.1996
	GR	13.03.1996
	IT	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	NL	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
	LU	30.06.1996
Former [2002/24]	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	ES	13.03.1996
	GR	13.03.1996
	IT	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
	LU	30.06.1996
Former [2000/04]	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	GR	13.03.1996
	IT	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
	LU	30.06.1996
Former [1999/42]	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	IT	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
Former [1997/13]	BE	13.03.1996
	CH	13.03.1996
	LI	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
Former [1996/52]	BE	13.03.1996
	SE	13.06.1996
Former [1996/44]	SE	13.06.1996
Documents cited:	Search	[A]US2329908 (JOHNSON CECIL E);
		[A]US2333270 (OPLER ALFRED M);
		[A]US3881490 (WHITEHEAD HOWARD A, et al);
		[AD]US4094119 (SULLIVAN WILLIAM E);
		[AD]US4100324 (ANDERSON RICHARD A, et al);
		[A]US4645698 (MATSUBARA MAMORU [JP])

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