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EP About this file: EP0588383

EP0588383 - Mechanical/electrical displacement transducer [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  27.11.1998
Database last updated on 03.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip28.12.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): DK		published on 30.01.2008  [2008/05]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
SARCOS GROUP
261 East 300 South, Suite 150 Salt Lake City
Utah 84111 / US
[N/P]
Former [1994/12]For all designated states
SARCOS GROUP
261 East 300 South, Suite 150
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Jacobsen, Stephen C.
274 South 12th East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 / US
02 / Mladejovsky, Michael G.
551 E. 4080 So., 6L
Salt Lake City, Utah 84107 / US
03 / Wood, John Everett
P.O. Box 58642
Salt Lake City, Utah 84158 / US
[1994/12]
Representative(s)Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
Leopoldstraße 4
80802 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1994/12]Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät
Maximilianstrasse 58
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date93119132.404.10.1990
[1994/12]
Priority number, dateUS1989041718104.10.1989         Original published format: US 417181
[1994/12]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0588383
Date:23.03.1994
Language:EN
[1994/12]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0588383
Date:27.04.1994
Language:EN
[1994/17]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0588383
Date:21.01.1998
Language:EN
[1998/04]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP10.03.1994
ClassificationIPC:G01D5/18
[1994/16]
CPC:
G01D5/14 (EP,US); G01B7/003 (EP,US); G01D5/34 (EP,US);
G01L1/005 (EP,US); G01P15/093 (EP,US); G01P15/12 (EP,US);
G01P15/124 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [1994/12]G01D5/14, G01B7/00
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   DK,   ES,   FR,   GB,   GR,   IT,   LI,   NL,   SE [1994/12]
TitleGerman:Mechanisch-elektrischer Wandler zur Messung einer Verschiebung[1994/12]
English:Mechanical/electrical displacement transducer[1994/12]
French:Transducteur mécanique-électrique de mesure de déplacement[1994/12]
Examination procedure26.11.1993Examination requested  [1994/12]
15.09.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
21.03.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.08.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
20.12.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.03.1997Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
09.07.1997Communication of intention to grant the patent
15.10.1997Fee for grant paid
15.10.1997Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP90119002.5  / EP0421401
Opposition(s)22.10.1998No opposition filed within time limit [1999/02]
Fees paidRenewal fee
26.11.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
26.11.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
31.10.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
31.10.1995Renewal fee patent year 06
31.10.1996Renewal fee patent year 07
29.10.1997Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipAT21.01.1998
ES21.01.1998
GR21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
NL21.01.1998
DK21.04.1998
SE21.04.1998
GB04.10.1998
[2003/45]
Former [2003/08]AT21.01.1998
ES21.01.1998
GR21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
NL21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
GB04.10.1998
Former [2002/26]AT21.01.1998
ES21.01.1998
GR21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
GB04.10.1998
Former [2000/05]AT21.01.1998
GR21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
GB04.10.1998
Former [2000/03]AT21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
GB04.10.1998
Former [1999/42]AT21.01.1998
IT21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
Former [1998/43]AT21.01.1998
SE21.04.1998
Former [1998/40]AT21.01.1998
Documents cited:Search[X]GB2163260  (BOGE GMBH) [X] 1 * page 2, line 69 - line 110 *;
 [DXA]US4767973  (JACOBSEN STEPHEN C [US], et al) [DX] 1 * column 16, line 3 - line 14 * * column 16, line 24 - line 26; figure 7 * * column 16, line 41 - line 43; figure 7 * * column 16, line 67 - column 17, line 3 * * column 17, line 43 - column 18, line 2; figure 10 * * claims 1,35 *[A] 2-5
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