| EP0665570 - Fuse box connector assembly [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.02.2004 Database last updated on 11.04.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THE WHITAKER CORPORATION 4550 New Linden Hill Road, Suite 450 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2003/14] | For all designated states THE WHITAKER CORPORATION 4550 New Linden Hill Road, Suite 450 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 / US | ||
| Former [1995/31] | For all designated states THE WHITAKER CORPORATION 4550 New Linden Hill Road, Suite 450 Wilmington, Delaware 19808 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kourimsky, Friedrich Josef Alois Jakobsweg 55 D-64625 Bensheim / DE | [1995/31] | Representative(s) | Klunker . Schmitt-Nilson . Hirsch Patentanwälte Destouchesstrasse 68 80796 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/31] | Klunker . Schmitt-Nilson . Hirsch Winzererstrasse 106 D-80797 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 95101080.0 | 26.01.1995 | [1995/31] | Priority number, date | GB19940001647 | 28.01.1994 Original published format: GB 9401647 | [1995/31] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0665570 | Date: | 02.08.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0665570 | Date: | 01.04.1998 | [1998/14] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0665570 | Date: | 02.04.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/14] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.02.1998 | Classification | IPC: | H01H85/20, B60R16/02 | [1995/31] | CPC: |
H01H85/04 (KR);
H01H85/20 (EP,US);
H01H2085/208 (EP,US);
H01H2085/209 (EP,US);
H01H2300/044 (EP,US);
H01H85/2035 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, NL [1995/31] | Title | German: | Schmelzsicherungsdose und Verbinderanordnung | [1995/31] | English: | Fuse box connector assembly | [1995/31] | French: | Boîte à fusibles et dispositif de couplage | [1995/31] | Examination procedure | 30.09.1998 | Examination requested [1998/48] | 11.12.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 03.04.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.06.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.10.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.01.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.02.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.05.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.08.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.11.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 06.11.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.01.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/13] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 27.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 05.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 10.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 09.01.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | FR | 02.04.2003 | IT | 02.04.2003 | NL | 02.04.2003 | ES | 30.10.2003 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2006/14] | FR | 02.04.2003 | |
| NL | 02.04.2003 | ||
| ES | 30.10.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/04] | NL | 02.04.2003 | |
| ES | 30.10.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/01] | NL | 02.04.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [AYX] US4555638 (LOBE HARTWIG et al.) [A] 1,14 * column W *[Y] 21 [X] 20,23 | [AXY] DE3225319 (ZUENDERWERK RUDOLF BRUEGGEMANN et al.) [A] 1,20 * the whole document *[X] 23 [Y] 14-19 | [Y] GB1483981 (CANNON ELECTRIC GREAT BRITAIN et al.) [Y] 14-19,21 * the whole document * | [AX] US5073131 (LEVINE MARK et al.) [A] 1,14,23 * the whole document *[X] 20 | [AX] GB2223630 (LUCAS IND PLC et al.) [A] 1,13,23 * the whole document *[X] 20 | [AX] DE3104165 (BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AG et al.) [A] 1,14,20 * the whole document *[X] 23 | [A] US4221455 (CAIRNS THOMAS M et al.) [A] 1,14,20,23 * the whole document * | [A] EP0135910 (REINSHAGEN KABELWERK GMBH et al.) [A] 1,14,20,23 * the whole document * | [A] GB2117189 (TOKAI ELECTRIC WIRE et al.) [A] 1,14,20,23 * the whole document * | [A] EP0438120 (YAZAKI CORP et al.) [A] 1,14,20,23 * abstract * | [A] US5038050 (MINOURA TAKAYOSHI et al.) [A] | [A] US5088940 (SAITO TAKAHIRO et al.) [A] | [A] GB2123626 [A] |