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EP0781984
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0781984 - Apparatus for taking volume-adjustable samples from moving fluid [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.05.2003 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.06.2004 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AT | published on 28.07.2004 [2004/31] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ENDRESS + HAUSER WETZER GmbH + Co. KG Obere Wank 1 87484 Nesselwang / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/27] | For all designated states Endress + Hauser Wetzer GmbH + Co. KG Obere Wank 1 D-87484 Nesselwang / DE | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Dangelmaier, Peter, Dipl.Ing. Hofs 7 D-87487 Wiggensbach / DE | 02 /
Steiger, Martin Kemptener Strasse 17 D-87459 Pfronten-Weissbach / DE | [1997/27] | Representative(s) | Andres, Angelika Maria, et al PatServ-Zentrale Patentabteilung Endress + Hauser (Deutschland) Holding GmbH Postfach 2222 79574 Weil/Rhein / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/16] | Andres, Angelika, et al PatServ-Zentrale Patentabteilung, Endress + Hauser (Deutschland) Holding GmbH, Postfach 2222 79574 Weil/Rhein / DE | ||
| Former [1997/27] | Morstadt, Volker, Dipl.-Ing. c/o Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG Kägenstrasse 7 Postfach 435 4153 Reinach (BL) 1 / CH | Application number, filing date | 95710019.1 | 11.12.1995 | [1997/27] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0781984 | Date: | 02.07.1997 | Language: | DE | [1997/27] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0781984 | Date: | 17.07.2002 | Language: | DE | [2002/29] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.06.1996 | Classification | IPC: | G01N1/20 | [1997/27] | CPC: |
G01N1/2035 (EP,US);
G01N2001/1043 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1997/27] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zur Entnahme einer volumen-einstellbaren Probe aus einem strömenden Fluid | [1997/27] | English: | Apparatus for taking volume-adjustable samples from moving fluid | [1997/27] | French: | Appareil pour prise d'échantillons à volume réglable d'un fluide en mouvement | [1997/27] | Examination procedure | 26.11.1996 | Examination requested [1997/27] | 27.11.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 02.03.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 18.05.2001 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: formalities examination {1} | 23.01.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.04.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 22.04.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 22.04.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/28] | Request for further processing for: | 22.05.2001 | Request for further processing filed | 22.05.2001 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 22.08.2001 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 04.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 08.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 26.11.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | DK | 17.10.2002 | SE | 17.10.2002 | AT | 11.12.2002 | BE | 31.12.2002 | ES | 30.01.2003 | [2004/31] |
| Former [2004/10] | DK | 17.10.2002 | |
| SE | 17.10.2002 | ||
| BE | 31.12.2002 | ||
| ES | 30.01.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/04] | DK | 17.10.2002 | |
| SE | 17.10.2002 | ||
| ES | 30.01.2003 | ||
| Former [2003/45] | DK | 17.10.2002 | |
| SE | 17.10.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/03] | SE | 17.10.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US3769841 (THULIN S) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [A]US3798972 (COLLINS H) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [A]DE2459224 (MANNING ENVIRONMENTAL CORP) [A] 1 * pages 1-2; claim 1 *; | [A]US3940993 (LAPIDOT HEINE) [A] 1 * claim 1 *; | [A]US3994170 (CZARNECKI ANDREW J) [A] 1 * figures 1,2; claim 3 *; | [A]WO9423564 (ALFA LAVAL AGRI BV [NL]) [A] 1* figures 1,2; claims 1-7 * |