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EP0722590
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0722590 - METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING ITEMS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.09.2003 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.09.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 22.10.2003 [2003/43] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Omnicell, Inc. 1101 East Meadow Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-4235 / US | [2002/24] |
| Former [1996/30] | For all designated states OMNICELL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1101 E. Meadow Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-4235 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
LIPPS, Randall, A. 320 Linfield Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 / US | [1996/30] | Representative(s) | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/30] | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 94923449.6 | 13.07.1994 | [1996/30] | WO1994US07841 | Priority number, date | US19930095619 | 21.07.1993 Original published format: US 95619 | US19940250223 | 27.05.1994 Original published format: US 250223 | [1996/30] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9503587 | Date: | 02.02.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/06] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0722590 | Date: | 24.07.1996 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 02.02.1995 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1996/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0722590 | Date: | 30.10.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/44] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 02.02.1995 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.02.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G06F17/00, A61G12/00, A61J7/00 | [1997/13] | CPC: |
G07F7/025 (EP,US);
A47F3/005 (EP,US);
A61G12/001 (EP,US);
G06Q20/342 (EP,US);
G07F17/0092 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1996/30] | G06F17/00 | Designated contracting states | AT, DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [1996/30] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN UND GERÄT ZUR STÜCKAUSGABE | [1996/30] | English: | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPENSING ITEMS | [1996/30] | French: | PROCEDES ET APPAREIL DE DISTRIBUTION D'ARTICLES | [1996/30] | Entry into regional phase | 20.02.1996 | National basic fee paid | 20.02.1996 | Search fee paid | 20.02.1996 | Designation fee(s) paid | 20.02.1996 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 09.02.1995 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 20.02.1996 | Examination requested [1996/30] | 27.09.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 03.03.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.01.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 22.05.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 16.08.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 16.08.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.07.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/43] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.06.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.06.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 29.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 23.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 21.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 25.07.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 22.07.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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