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EP0649604
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0649604 - Separating apparatus and method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.06.2002 Database last updated on 26.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.06.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 14.08.2002 [2002/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states UNIVERSAL LEAF TOBACCO COMPANY INCORPORATED Hamilton Street at Broad Street Richmond Virginia 23260 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/17] | For all designated states UNIVERSAL LEAF TOBACCO COMPANY INCORPORATED Hamilton Street at Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23260 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Coleman, Gerald Arthur John 8902 Norwick Circle Richmond, Virginia 23229 / US | 02 /
Konar, Michael J. 1809 Sarazen Place Raleigh, North Carolina 27615 / US | [1995/17] | Representative(s) | Laight, Martin Harvey Beck Greener Fulwood House 12 Fulwood Place London WC1V 6HR / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/17] | Laight, Martin Harvey W.H. Beck, Greener & Co. 7 Stone Buildings Lincoln's Inn London WC2A 3SZ / GB | Application number, filing date | 94307766.9 | 21.10.1994 | [1995/17] | Priority number, date | US19930140306 | 22.10.1993 Original published format: US 140306 | [1995/17] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0649604 | Date: | 26.04.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/17] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0649604 | Date: | 22.08.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/34] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.02.1995 | Classification | IPC: | A24B5/10 | [1995/17] | CPC: |
A24B5/10 (EP,US);
B03B4/04 (EP,US);
B07B11/06 (EP,US);
B07B4/02 (EP,US);
B07B4/025 (EP,US);
B07B9/02 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [1995/17] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zum Trennen und Verfahren | [1995/17] | English: | Separating apparatus and method | [1995/17] | French: | Appareil de séparation et méthode | [1995/17] | Examination procedure | 18.10.1995 | Examination requested [1995/50] | 06.04.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M07) | 13.11.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.03.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 14.09.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.07.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 22.11.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 05.12.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.03.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 07.03.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 23.05.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/33] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 18.10.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 08.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.09.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 25.10.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 06.10.2000 | 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. | Documents cited: | Search | [AD]US4465194 (COLEMAN G A JOHN [US]) [AD] 1* column W *; | [A]US4915824 (SURTEES GUY F [US]) [A] 1 * column W *; | [A]GB2231770 (CARDWELL MACHINE COMPANY [GB]) [A] 1,8,9,11,13-22 * the whole document *; | [D]US5099863 (COLEMAN G A JOHN [US], et al) [D] * column W *; | [A]EP0479549 (UNIVERSAL LEAF TOBACCO CO [US]) [A] 1,8,9,11,13-22; | [AD]US5205415 (SURTEES GUY F [US]) [AD] 1,8,9,11,13-22 * column W * |