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EP About this file: EP0422579

EP0422579 - Vacuum cleaner [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  01.11.1995
Database last updated on 20.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip01.11.1995No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 20.12.1995 [1995/51]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Hitachi, Ltd.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1991/16]For all designated states
HITACHI, LTD.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Sunagawa, Masao
Dia Palace Mito 201, 8-2, Joutou 2-chome
Mito-shi, Ibaraki 310 / JP
02 / Sagawa, Kouiti
31-3, Moriyama-cho 2-chome
Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki 316 / JP
[1991/16]
Representative(s)Beetz & Partner mbB
Patentanwälte
Prinzregentenstraße 54
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1991/16]Patentanwälte Beetz - Timpe - Siegfried Schmitt-Fumian - Mayr
Steinsdorfstrasse 10
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date90119328.409.10.1990
[1991/16]
Priority number, dateJP1989026493513.10.1989         Original published format: JP 26493589
[1991/16]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0422579
Date:17.04.1991
Language:EN
[1991/16]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0422579
Date:28.12.1994
Language:EN
[1994/52]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP21.01.1991
ClassificationIPC:A47L5/36, A47L9/00
[1991/16]
CPC:
A47L9/009 (EP,US); A47L9/00 (KR); A47L5/365 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB [1991/16]
TitleGerman:Staubsauger[1991/16]
English:Vacuum cleaner[1991/16]
French:Aspirateur de poussières[1991/16]
File destroyed:20.04.2002
Examination procedure19.11.1990Examination requested  [1991/16]
26.10.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
05.05.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
30.09.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
10.02.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
08.03.1994Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
03.06.1994Communication of intention to grant the patent
30.08.1994Fee for grant paid
30.08.1994Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)29.09.1995No opposition filed within time limit [1995/51]
Fees paidRenewal fee
26.10.1992Renewal fee patent year 03
28.10.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
28.10.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[X]GB343894  (EDWIN JUELSON);
 [X]FR2449431  (OUEST APPLIC MECA);
 [Y]US2771151  (OSBORN RALPH C);
 [Y]GB925272  (NAT UNION ELECTRIC CORP);
 [A]US3996641  (EICHHOLZ ARTHUR H);
 [A]US2937396  (MOMBERG JAMES W, et al);
 [A]US2889570  (DUFF JACK E);
 [XP]EP0362895  (HITACHI LTD [JP]);
 [A]DE3024487  (HOHENLOHER SPEZIALMOEBEL [DE]);
 [AD]JPS4329421Y
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