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EP About this file: EP0707024

EP0707024 - Purification process of polyhydroxycarboxylic acids [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  14.04.2000
Database last updated on 19.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip12.01.2001Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 28.02.2001 [2001/09]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
2-5, Kasumigaseki 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1998/26]For all designated states
MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
2-5, Kasumigaseki 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo / JP
Former [1996/16]For all designated states
MITSUI TOATSU CHEMICALS, Inc.
2-5 Kasumigaseki 3-chome
Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 100 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yoshida, Yasunori, 405 Higashi-Totsuka-Ryo.
42-7, Hirado 3-chome, Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 244 / JP
02 / Watanabe, Katsuji
86, Hachihon-machi
Omuta-shi, Fukuoka-ken 836 / JP
03 / Obuchi, Shoji
1-2-1 Yabe-Ap., 1541 Yabe-cho, Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 244 / JP
04 / Ohta, Masahiro
2-6-41, Komachi
Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa-ken 248 / JP
[1996/16]
Representative(s)Strehl Schübel-Hopf & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1996/16]Strehl Schübel-Hopf Groening & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date95115963.110.10.1995
[1996/16]
Priority number, dateJP1994024788113.10.1994         Original published format: JP 24788194
[1996/16]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0707024
Date:17.04.1996
Language:EN
[1996/16]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0707024
Date:05.06.1996
[1996/23]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0707024
Date:16.06.1999
Language:EN
[1999/24]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP17.04.1996
ClassificationIPC:C08G63/90, C08G63/06
[1996/16]
CPC:
C08G63/90 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB,   NL [1996/16]
TitleGerman:Reinigungsverfahren von Polyhydroxycarbonsäure[1996/16]
English:Purification process of polyhydroxycarboxylic acids[1996/16]
French:Procédé de purification d'acides polyhydroxycarboxyliques[1996/16]
Examination procedure24.10.1995Examination requested  [1996/16]
18.05.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
15.07.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.10.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
30.10.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
20.11.1998Communication of intention to grant the patent
17.02.1999Fee for grant paid
17.02.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)17.03.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/22]
Fees paidRenewal fee
20.10.1997Renewal fee patent year 03
20.10.1998Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipGB10.10.1999
[2001/09]
Documents cited:Search[A]DE4218268  (BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM KG [DE]) [A] 1* claims 1-4 *;
 [A]EP0591978  (MITSUI TOATSU CHEMICALS [JP]) [A] 1-5 * claims 1-7 *
by applicantUS4810775
 US4960866
 US5310865
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