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EP0694074 - PRODUCTION OF PLASTICS MATERIALS FROM MICROORGANISMS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.10.1998 Database last updated on 26.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	17.04.2015	Change - lapse in a contracting state New state(s): DK	published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Monsanto Company 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63167 / US
	[N/P]
Former [1997/49]	For all designated states MONSANTO COMPANY 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63167 / US
Former [1996/52]	For all designated states MONSANTO COMPANY 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis Missouri 63167 / US
Former [1996/05]	For all designated states ZENECA LIMITED 15 Stanhope Gate London W1Y 6LN / GB
Inventor(s)	01 / LIDDELL, John MacDonald 678 Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland TS16 0DP / GB
	02 / LOCKE, Timothy John 9 Rosehill, Great Ayton Middlesbrough, Cleveland TS9 6BH / GB
	[1996/05]
Representative(s)	Bosch, Henry, et al Monsanto Europe S.A./N.V. Avenue de Tervuren 270-272 1150 Brussels / BE
	[N/P]
Former [1998/33]	Bosch, Henry, et al Monsanto Services International S.A. Patent Department Avenue de Tervuren 270/272 Letter Box No. 1 1150 Brussels / BE
Former [1996/32]	Nash, Brian Walter, et al Monsanto Europe S.A. Patent Department Avenue de Tervuren 270-272 Letter Box No 1 B-1150 Brussels / BE
Former [1996/05]	Locke, Timothy John Intellectual Property Group Zeneca Bioproducts P.O. Box 2 Belasis Avenue Billingham Cleveland TS23 1YN / GB
Application number, filing date	94912027.3	07.04.1994
	[1996/05]
	WO1994GB00741
Priority number, date	GB19930007674	14.04.1993 Original published format: GB 9307674
	[1996/05]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO9424302
	Date:	27.10.1994
	[1994/24]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0694074
	Date:	31.01.1996
	[1996/05]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0694074
	Date:	03.12.1997
	Language:	EN
	[1997/49]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	EP	27.10.1994
Classification	IPC:	C12P7/62, C12N1/08	[1996/05]
	CPC:	C12N1/08 (EP,US); C12P7/625 (EP,US); Y10S435/80 (EP,US); Y10S435/803 (EP,US); Y10S435/82 (EP,US); Y10S435/829 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, PT, SE [1996/05]
Title	German:	HERSTELLUNG VON PLASTISCHEN MATERIALIEN DURCH MIKROORGANISMEN	[1997/49]
	English:	PRODUCTION OF PLASTICS MATERIALS FROM MICROORGANISMS	[1996/05]
	French:	PRODUCTION DE MATIERES PLASTIQUES A PARTIR DE MICRO-ORGANISMES	[1996/05]
	Former [1996/05]	HERSTELLUNG VON PLASTISCHE MATERIALIEN DURCH MIKROORGANISMEN
Entry into regional phase	14.11.1995	National basic fee paid
	14.11.1995	Designation fee(s) paid
	14.11.1995	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	21.10.1994	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
	14.11.1995	Examination requested [1996/05]
	20.01.1997	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	04.06.1997	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	02.09.1997	Fee for grant paid
	02.09.1997	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	04.09.1998	No opposition filed within time limit [1998/48]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	16.04.1996	Renewal fee patent year 03
	08.04.1997	Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	03.12.1997
	CH	03.12.1997
	DK	03.12.1997
	ES	03.12.1997
	LI	03.12.1997
	NL	03.12.1997
	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
	[2015/21]
Former [2003/08]	AT	03.12.1997
	CH	03.12.1997
	ES	03.12.1997
	LI	03.12.1997
	NL	03.12.1997
	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
Former [2002/26]	AT	03.12.1997
	CH	03.12.1997
	ES	03.12.1997
	LI	03.12.1997
	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
Former [1998/43]	AT	03.12.1997
	CH	03.12.1997
	LI	03.12.1997
	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
Former [1998/40]	AT	03.12.1997
	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
Former [1998/37]	PT	03.03.1998
	SE	03.03.1998
Former [1998/35]	SE	03.03.1998
Cited in	International search	[DA]EP0145233 (ICI PLC [GB]) [DA] 1* page 11, line 3 - line 12; claim - *
		[A] - KAZUTOSHI ITO, "Degradation of RNA in Escherichia coli induced by sodium chloride.", AGRICULTURAL AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY., TOKYO JP, (1977), vol. 41, no. 2, pages 257 - 263 [A] 1 * the whole document *
		[A] - SCHWEITZ, HUGUES, "Actio of oxygenated water on DNA in the presence of ferrous ions and light.", CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, (19690217), vol. 70, no. 7, Database accession no. 25618r, page 8 [A] 1 * abstract *
		[ ] - BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS., DULUTH, MINNESOTA US, (1968), vol. 166, no. 3, pages 720 - 722

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