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EP About this file: EP0492946

EP0492946 - Biocontrol particles [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  10.01.1997
Database last updated on 19.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.12.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): ES
published on 09.01.2008  [2008/02]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Del Monte Corporation
One Market Plaza P.O. Box 3575 San Francisco
California 94119-3575 / US
[N/P]
Former [1992/27]For all designated states
Del Monte Corporation
One Market Plaza P.O. Box 3575
San Francisco California 94119-3575 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Ayanaba, Abateni
100 Rishell Drive
Oakland, California 94619 / US
[1992/27]
Representative(s)Baverstock, Michael George Douglas, et al
BOULT WADE TENNANT, Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8BT / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/27]Baverstock, Michael George Douglas, et al
BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street
London, EC4A 1PQ / GB
Application number, filing date91311724.818.12.1991
[1992/27]
Priority number, dateUS1990063168821.12.1990         Original published format: US 631688
[1992/27]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0492946
Date:01.07.1992
Language:EN
[1992/27]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0492946
Date:06.03.1996
Language:EN
[1996/10]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP13.04.1992
ClassificationIPC:A01N63/00, // (A01N63/00, 25:26)
[1992/27]
CPC:
A01N63/20 (EP,US)
C-Set:
A01N63/20, A01N2300/00 (US,EP);
A01N63/20, A01N25/26 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT [1992/27]
TitleGerman:Bio-Bekämpfungsteilchen[1992/27]
English:Biocontrol particles[1992/27]
French:Granulés pour la lutte biologique[1996/10]
Former [1992/27]Grains de biocontrôle
Examination procedure20.11.1992Examination requested  [1993/03]
20.05.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
17.11.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
16.01.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
26.05.1995Communication of intention to grant the patent
17.08.1995Fee for grant paid
17.08.1995Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)07.12.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1997/09]
Fees paidRenewal fee
24.11.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
30.11.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
27.11.1995Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipES06.03.1996
IT06.03.1996
DE08.06.1996
[2002/25]
Former [1999/42]IT06.03.1996
DE08.06.1996
Former [1996/44]DE08.06.1996
Documents cited:Search[AD]  - NEMATOLOGICA vol. 26, no. 3, 1980, LEIDEN pages 308 - 312; G. R. STIRLING ET. AL: 'Mass production of Bacillus penetrans for the biological control of root-knot nematodes'
 [AD]  - B. CROSS AND H. B. SCHER 'Pesticide Formulations: Innovations and Developments' 1988 , AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY , WASHINGTON, DC pages 241-250, W. J. Connick, Jr., "Formulation of Living Biological Control Agents with Alginate".
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