EP0593826 - Retro-reflective assembly [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.02.2000 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 09.01.2008 [2008/02] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states SWINTEX LIMITED Derby Works Manchester Road Bury Lancashire BL9 9NX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1994/17] | For all designated states SWINTEX LIMITED Derby Works Manchester Road Bury Lancashire BL9 9NX / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Houghton, Harry Vincent 56 Shorefield Mount Egerton, Bolton BL7 9EW / GB | 02 /
Wallwork, Peter 6 Church Meadows Harwood, Bolton BL2 3PB / GB | 03 /
Booth, Michael Philip 7 Merton Street Bury, BL8 1AW / GB | [1994/17] | Representative(s) | Wilson Gunn Blackfriars House The Parsonage 5th Floor Manchester M3 2JA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1994/40] | Low, Peter John, et al Wilson, Gunn, M'Caw & Co., 41-51 Royal Exchange, Cross Street Manchester, M2 7BD / GB | ||
Former [1994/17] | Low, Peter John Wilson, Gunn, M'Caw & Co., 41-51 Royal Exchange, Cross Street Manchester, M2 7BD / GB | Application number, filing date | 92309696.0 | 23.10.1992 | [1994/17] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0593826 | Date: | 27.04.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/17] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0593826 | Date: | 14.04.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/15] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.06.1993 | Classification | IPC: | B29C65/36, B29C65/04, G02B5/128, G09F13/16, E01F9/011, E01F15/00 | [1998/38] | CPC: |
B29C65/04 (EP);
B23K13/00 (EP);
B29C65/366 (EP);
B29C65/3676 (EP);
B29C66/1122 (EP);
B29C66/43 (EP);
B29C66/45 (EP);
B29C66/472 (EP);
B29C66/723 (EP);
B32B7/04 (EP);
E01F13/028 (EP);
E01F9/535 (EP);
E01F9/619 (EP);
E01F9/669 (EP);
G02B5/128 (EP);
G09F13/0472 (EP);
G09F13/16 (EP);
B29C66/71 (EP);
B29C66/8322 (EP)
(-)
| C-Set: |
B29C66/71, B29K2027/06 (EP)
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Former IPC [1994/17] | B29C65/36, B29C65/04, G02B5/128, G09F13/16, E01F9/01, E01F15/00 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1999/05] |
Former [1994/17] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Rückstrahlende Vorrichtung | [1994/17] | English: | Retro-reflective assembly | [1994/17] | French: | Ensemble retroréfléchissant | [1994/17] | Examination procedure | 02.06.1994 | Examination requested [1994/31] | 18.09.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.03.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 13.02.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.06.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 05.01.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.03.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 16.07.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 03.09.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 11.12.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 11.12.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 15.01.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/14] | Request for further processing for: | 13.02.1997 | Request for further processing filed | 12.02.1997 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 12.03.1997 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 31.10.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 30.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | AT | 14.04.1999 | BE | 14.04.1999 | CH | 14.04.1999 | ES | 14.04.1999 | GR | 14.04.1999 | IT | 14.04.1999 | LI | 14.04.1999 | NL | 14.04.1999 | SE | 14.04.1999 | DK | 14.07.1999 | PT | 14.07.1999 | IE | 23.10.1999 | LU | 23.10.1999 | [2008/02] |
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Former [2000/23] | BE | 14.04.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US4025159 (MCGRATH JOSEPH M); | [X]EP0200521 (MINNESOTA MINING & MFG [US]); | [A]EP0440410 (KINUGAWA RUBBER IND [JP]); | [A]EP0399841 (MINNESOTA MINING & MFG [US]); | [A]GB1497665 (SWINTEX) |