EP0603999 - Tube having regions of different surface chemistry and method therefor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.09.1998 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): NL | published on 19.02.2003 [2003/08] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Becton Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-1880 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1997/47] | For all designated states Becton, Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880 / US | ||
Former [1994/26] | For all designated states Becton Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Montgomery, David B 801 Brookgreen Drive Cary, North Carolina 27511 / US | [1994/26] | Representative(s) | Ruffles, Graham Keith, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 62-68 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1LA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1994/26] | Ruffles, Graham Keith, et al MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 93307652.3 | 28.09.1993 | [1994/26] | Priority number, date | US19920955964 | 02.10.1992 Original published format: US 955964 | [1994/26] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0603999 | Date: | 29.06.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/26] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0603999 | Date: | 19.11.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/47] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.02.1994 | Classification | IPC: | B29C59/14, B01L3/14, C03C23/00 | [1994/26] | CPC: |
C08J7/123 (EP,US);
G11C5/145 (KR);
B05D1/62 (EP,US);
B29C59/142 (EP,US);
C03C23/006 (EP,US);
H02M3/073 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1994/26] | Title | German: | Rohr mit unterschiedlicher Oberflächenchemie und Verfahren dazu | [1994/26] | English: | Tube having regions of different surface chemistry and method therefor | [1994/26] | French: | Tube comportant des portions de surface de compositions chimiques différentes et procédé | [1994/26] | Examination procedure | 22.12.1994 | Examination requested [1995/08] | 03.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 09.09.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.01.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 26.03.1997 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.05.1997 | Fee for grant paid | 30.05.1997 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 20.08.1998 | No opposition filed within time limit [1998/46] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.09.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | BE | 19.11.1997 | CH | 19.11.1997 | ES | 19.11.1997 | LI | 19.11.1997 | NL | 19.11.1997 | SE | 19.02.1998 | [2003/08] |
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Former [1998/45] | CH | 19.11.1997 | |
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Former [1998/35] | SE | 19.02.1998 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPS62195028 ; | [A]JPS59106570 ; | [A]JPS62235339 ; | [A]US4257886 (KESSLER STEPHEN B) [A] 9* claims 3,9 *; | [A]EP0387700 (BECTON DICKINSON CO [US]) [A] 1-4,7,9 * claims 5,6,9 *; | [A] - B. LAMONTAGNE, A. M. WROBEL, G. JALBERT, M. R. WERTHEIMER, "Large-area microwave plasma etching of polyimide", JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, BRISTOL, GREAT BRITAIN, (19870714), vol. 20, no. 7, doi:doi:10.1088/0022-3727/20/7/005, pages 844 - 850, XP020014412 [A] 1-4 * figure 8 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/20/7/005 | [A] - DATABASE WPI, 1, Derwent World Patents Index, vol. 87, no. 49, Database accession no. 87-280753, & JPS62195028 A 19870827 (SUMITOMO ELEC) [A] 1-4,7,9 * abstract * | [A] - DATABASE WPI, 1, Derwent World Patents Index, vol. 84, no. 31, Database accession no. 84-191108, & JPS59106570 A 19840620 (SHINETSU CHEM) [A] 1-4 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19880408), vol. 12, no. 110, Database accession no. (C - 486), & JP62235339 A 19871015 (MASHIRO KOKOMA) [A] 1-4 * abstract * |