EP0707024 - Purification process of polyhydroxycarboxylic acids [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 14.04.2000 Database last updated on 19.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.01.2001 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published 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 date | 95115963.1 | 10.10.1995 | [1996/16] | Priority number, date | JP19940247881 | 13.10.1994 Original published format: JP 24788194 | [1996/16] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | 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: | EP | 17.04.1996 | Classification | IPC: | C08G63/90, C08G63/06 | [1996/16] | CPC: |
C08G63/90 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, GB, NL [1996/16] | Title | German: | Reinigungsverfahren von Polyhydroxycarbonsäure | [1996/16] | English: | Purification process of polyhydroxycarboxylic acids | [1996/16] | French: | Procédé de purification d'acides polyhydroxycarboxyliques | [1996/16] | Examination procedure | 24.10.1995 | Examination requested [1996/16] | 18.05.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 15.07.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.10.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 30.10.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 20.11.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 17.02.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 17.02.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 17.03.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/22] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | GB | 10.10.1999 | [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 applicant | US4810775 | US4960866 | US5310865 |