| EP0700820 - Transport cart [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.10.2001 Database last updated on 11.04.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states HERMAN MILLER, INC. 855 East Main Avenue, MS 0442 Zeeland, Michigan 49464-0302 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/50] | For all designated states HERMAN MILLER, INC. 855 East Main Avenue, MS 0442 Zeeland, Michigan 49464-0302 / US | ||
| Former [1996/11] | For all designated states HERMAN MILLER, INC. 855 East Main Avenue Zeeland, Michigan 49464-0302 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Insalaco, Robert W. 2153 Woodlark Drive Holland, Michigan 49424 / US | 02 /
Montague, Edgar B. 4618 Charleston Manor Drive Charlotte, North Carolina 28211 / US | [1996/11] | Representative(s) | McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/19] | McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | ||
| Former [1996/11] | Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 95306265.0 | 07.09.1995 | [1996/11] | Priority number, date | US19940301913 | 07.09.1994 Original published format: US 301913 | US19940306510 | 14.09.1994 Original published format: US 306510 | [1996/11] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0700820 | Date: | 13.03.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/11] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0700820 | Date: | 17.07.1996 | [1996/29] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0700820 | Date: | 13.12.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/50] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 31.05.1996 | Classification | IPC: | B62B3/00, A47B67/04 | [1996/29] | CPC: |
A47B31/00 (EP);
B62B3/00 (EP,KR);
A47B47/02 (EP);
A61G12/001 (EP);
A47B2031/002 (EP);
A61G2203/723 (EP)
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| Former IPC [1996/11] | B62B3/00 | Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1996/11] | Title | German: | Transportkarre | [1996/11] | English: | Transport cart | [1996/11] | French: | Chariot de transport | [1996/11] | Examination procedure | 01.08.1996 | Examination requested [1996/40] | 19.03.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.07.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.11.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 17.05.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.11.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 06.03.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 21.03.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.06.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 15.06.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP99111892.8 / EP0940316 | Opposition(s) | 14.09.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/49] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.08.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 23.08.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 28.08.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | IT | 13.12.2000 | ES | 16.02.2001 | GB | 07.09.2001 | [2008/06] |
| Former [2006/14] | ES | 16.02.2001 | |
| GB | 07.09.2001 | ||
| Former [2003/01] | GB | 07.09.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [X] FR2594317 (GRANDI RENE et al.) [X] 1-6,11-13,18,21,23,24,27,28,35 * the whole document * | [A] US5263595 (HILSTOLSKY FRANK J et al.) [A] 1-5,7-10 * the whole document * | [A] DE2320348 (CORDES WERNER et al.) [A] 1-5,7-10 * figure - * | [A] US3307895 (RENNER FRANK J et al.) [A] | [A] FR2441524 (BLANC GMBH & CO et al.) [A] | [A] FR2271970 (SOCOMECA et al.) [A] | [A] DE3247135 (HAEBERLE & CO et al.) [A] 36,39,41 * the whole document * | [A] US3429632 (SIMON PETER ALAN et al.) [A] 36 * the whole document * | [A] GB1416702 (WESTERN TRADING CO LONDON LTD et al.) [A] 36 * the whole document * |