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EP0596786
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0596786
| EP0596786 - Spacer grid provided with vanes for nuclear fuel assembly [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.10.1997 Database last updated on 01.02.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.10.1997 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 26.11.1997 [1997/48] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states B&W FUEL COMPANY 3315 Old Forest Road Lynchburg, VA 24506-0935 / US | [1994/19] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Morgan, Charles D., c/o B&W Fuel Company 3315 Old Forest Road, P.O. Box 10935 Lynchburg, VA 24506-0935 / US | 02 /
Tucker, Jeffrey S., c/o B&W Fuel Company 3315 Old Forest Road, P.O. Box 10935 Lynchburg, VA 24506-0935 / US | 03 /
Farnsworth, David A., c/o B&W Fuel Company 3315 Old Forest Road, P.O. Box 10935 Lynchburg, VA 24506-0935 / US | 04 /
Aldrich, Michael E., c/o B&W Fuel Company 3315 Old Forest Road, P.O. Box 10935 Lynchburg, VA 24506-0935 / US | [1994/19] | Representative(s) | Fort, Jacques CABINET PLASSERAUD 84, rue d'Amsterdam 75440 Paris Cedex 09 / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/19] | Fort, Jacques CABINET PLASSERAUD 84, rue d'Amsterdam F-75440 Paris Cedex 09 / FR | Application number, filing date | 93402672.5 | 29.10.1993 | [1994/19] | Priority number, date | US19920970760 | 02.11.1992 Original published format: US 970760 | [1994/19] | Filing language | FR | Procedural language | FR | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0596786 | Date: | 11.05.1994 | Language: | FR | [1994/19] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0596786 | Date: | 04.12.1996 | Language: | FR | [1996/49] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.02.1994 | Classification | IPC: | G21C3/322, G21C3/352 | [1994/19] | CPC: |
G21C3/322 (EP,KR,US);
G21C3/352 (EP,KR,US);
Y02E30/30 (EP,US);
Y10S376/901 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, ES, FR, SE [1994/19] | Title | German: | Mit Fahnen versehenes Abstandshaltergitter für Kernbrennstoffbündel | [1994/19] | English: | Spacer grid provided with vanes for nuclear fuel assembly | [1994/19] | French: | Grille d'espacement munie d'ailettes pour assemblage combustible nucléaire | [1994/19] | Examination procedure | 11.01.1995 | Examination requested [1995/10] | 28.11.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 14.03.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.04.1996 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 07.06.1996 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 09.08.1996 | Fee for grant paid | 09.08.1996 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.09.1997 | No opposition filed within time limit [1997/48] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 18.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 17.09.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85b EPC 1973 | 22.12.1994 | M01 Fee paid on 11.01.1995 |
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