EP0627127 - ENERGY PACK AND INDIVIDUAL BATTERY CELL CARTRIDGE [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 20.08.1999 Database last updated on 12.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.11.2000 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): CH, LI | published on 27.12.2000 [2000/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states DURACELL INC. 255 Highland Avenue Needham, MA 02194 / US | [1994/49] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SMITH, Richard B. 6 Settler's Road Bethel, CT 06801 / US | 02 /
McDONALD, Bruce 13 Forest Road Weston, CT 06883 / US | [1994/49] | Representative(s) | Dummett, Thomas Ian Peter, et al Dummett Copp & Co. 25 The Square Martlesham Heath, Ipswich Suffolk IP5 7SL / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1997/22] | Dummett, Thomas Ian Peter, et al Dummett Copp & Co. 25 The Square Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk IP5 7SL / GB | ||
Former [1995/49] | Mounteney, Simon James, et al MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | ||
Former [1994/49] | Lawson, David Glynne MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 92918934.8 | 24.08.1992 | [1994/49] | WO1992US07102 | Priority number, date | US19920839415 | 21.02.1992 Original published format: US 839415 | [1994/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9317463 | Date: | 02.09.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/21] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0627127 | Date: | 07.12.1994 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 02.09.1993 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1994/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0627127 | Date: | 14.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/42] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 02.09.1993 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.10.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H01M2/10 | [1994/49] | CPC: |
H01M50/202 (EP,US);
H01M50/213 (EP,US);
H01M50/262 (EP,US);
Y02E60/10 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, LI [1994/50] |
Former [1994/49] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, SE | Title | German: | ENERGIEEINHEIT UND KASSETTE FÜR EINZELBATTERIE | [1994/49] | English: | ENERGY PACK AND INDIVIDUAL BATTERY CELL CARTRIDGE | [1994/49] | French: | BATTERIE ET CARTOUCHE CONTENANT DES ELEMENTS DE BATTERIE INDIVIDUELS | [1994/49] | Entry into regional phase | 19.09.1994 | National basic fee paid | 19.09.1994 | Search fee paid | 19.09.1994 | Designation fee(s) paid | 19.09.1994 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 16.08.1993 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: DE | 19.09.1994 | Examination requested [1994/49] | 15.04.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.08.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.03.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 02.05.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.06.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 02.07.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.11.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 23.03.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.06.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 15.06.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 15.07.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/40] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 19.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.08.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 05.08.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 04.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 12.08.1998 | 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 | CH | 14.10.1998 | LI | 14.10.1998 | [2000/52] |
Former [2000/50] | CH | 19.01.1999 | |
LI | 19.01.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]GB2088158 (SANYO ELECTRIC CO) [X] 1,2,4 * page 3, line 84 - line 90; figures 1,10 * * page 1, line 99 - line 104 *; | [PX]GB2249865 (TRIUMPH ADLER AG [DE]) [PX] 1,2,4 * page 3, paragraph 1; figure 2 * * page 4, paragraph 4 ** page 5, paragraph 6 * | International search | [A]US4464445 (MATTI DAVID M [US]); | [A]US4514477 (KOBAYASHI MASAO [JP]); | [A]US4636703 (TOHYA SYOICHI [JP], et al); | [A]US5015546 (DULANEY KEN L [US], et al) |