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EP0799105
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| EP0799105 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MAKING KEYS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 20.01.2006 Database last updated on 19.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.11.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 31.12.2008 [2009/01] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Almblad, Robert E. 440 Banbury Road Mundelein, IL 60060 / US | [1997/41] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
ALMBLAD, Robert, E. 440 Banbury Road Mundelein, IL 60060 / US | 02 /
BLIN, John 1903 Stanton Court Arlington Heights, IL 60004 / US | 03 /
JURCZAK, Paul 1662 Vineyard Drive Gurnee, IL 60031 / US | [1997/41] | Representative(s) | Goodenough, Nigel, et al A.A. Thornton & Co. 235 High Holborn London WC1V 7LE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/41] | Goodenough, Nigel, et al A.A. Thornton & Co. Northumberland House 303-306 High Holborn London WC1V 7LE / GB | Application number, filing date | 95906703.4 | 22.12.1994 | [1997/41] | WO1994US14862 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9619309 | Date: | 27.06.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/29] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0799105 | Date: | 08.10.1997 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 27.06.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1997/41] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0799105 | Date: | 16.03.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/11] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 27.06.1996 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.07.2002 | Classification | IPC: | B23C3/35 | [1997/41] | CPC: |
B23C3/35 (EP,US);
G06F18/00 (EP);
G06V20/66 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1997/41] | Title | German: | METHODE UND GERÄT ZUR AUTOMATISCHEN FERTIGUNG VON SCHLÜSSELN | [2004/33] | English: | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MAKING KEYS | [1997/41] | French: | PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DE REPRODUCTION AUTOMATIQUE DE CLEFS | [1997/41] |
| Former [1997/41] | METHODE UND GERÄT ZUM AUTOMATISCHEN FERTIGUNG SCHLÜSSELN | Entry into regional phase | 03.07.1997 | National basic fee paid | 03.07.1997 | Search fee paid | 03.07.1997 | Designation fee(s) paid | 03.07.1997 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 28.06.1996 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 03.07.1997 | Examination requested [1997/41] | 25.11.2002 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 16.01.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 12.05.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.07.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 28.11.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.01.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 25.05.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.07.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.01.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 12.01.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 19.12.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/10] | Request for further processing for: | 21.11.2002 | Request for further processing filed | 21.11.2002 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 12.12.2002 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 03.07.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 13.12.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.12.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 12.12.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 12.12.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 14.12.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 11 |
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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 | 16.03.2005 | IT | 16.03.2005 | DE | 17.06.2005 | [2009/01] |
| Former [2008/06] | IT | 16.03.2005 | |
| DE | 17.06.2005 | ||
| Former [2006/18] | DE | 17.06.2005 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]US3796130 (GARTNER K) [Y] 1 * column 2, line 65 - column 3, line 67 * * column 14, line 36 - column 17, line 51; figure 1; claim 1 *; | [X]US4143582 (HEIMANN JOSEPH B) [X] 1 * column 11, line 63 - column 14, line 33; figures 9-11 *; | [Y]FR2489535 (COMMISSARIAT ENERGIE ATOMIQUE [FR]) [Y] 1 * page 8, line 24 - page 12, line 9; figures 1-5 *; | [Y]US4899391 (CIMINO WILLIAM J [US], et al) [Y] 1 * column 2, line 41 - column 6, line 2 * * abstract *; | [A]US5129010 (HIGUCHI KAZUNORI [JP], et al) [A] * the whole document *; | [A]US5193120 (GAMACHE RONALD W [US], et al) [A] * the whole document *; | [X]EP0628683 (TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD [JP]) [X] 1 * column 2, line 18 - column 6, line 30; figures 1,7 * * abstract * | International search | [A]US3796130 (GARTNER K); | [Y]US4143582 (HEIMANN JOSEPH B); | [X]US4324513 (HUGHES DONALD R); | [A]US4899391 (CIMINO WILLIAM J [US], et al); | [A]US5129010 (HIGUCHI KAZUNORI [JP], et al); | [A]US5193120 (GAMACHE RONALD W [US], et al) |