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EP0748427
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| EP0748427 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING CHEMICAL BATH SEALS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 29.09.2000 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 29.09.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 15.11.2000 [2000/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states IMTEC PRODUCTS INC. 1295 Forgewood Avenue Sunnyvale California 94089 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/51] | For all designated states IMTEC PRODUCTS INC. 1295 Forgewood Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94089 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
STRUVEN, Kenneth, C. 2 Forrest Lane San Carlos, CA 94070 / US | [1996/51] | Representative(s) | Hackney, Nigel John, et al Mewburn Ellis LLP City Tower 40 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5DE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/51] | Hackney, Nigel John, et al Mewburn Ellis, York House, 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | Application number, filing date | 95911600.5 | 31.01.1995 | [1996/51] | WO1995US01352 | Priority number, date | US19940188817 | 31.01.1994 Original published format: US 188817 | [1996/51] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9520741 | Date: | 03.08.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/33] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0748427 | Date: | 18.12.1996 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.08.1995 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1996/51] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0748427 | Date: | 01.12.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/48] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 03.08.1995 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 14.03.1997 | Classification | IPC: | F16K49/00 | [1996/51] | CPC: |
H01L21/67086 (EP,US);
F16K49/00 (KR);
H01L21/67057 (EP,US);
H04M1/663 (EP,US);
H04M3/4228 (EP,US);
H04M3/436 (EP,US);
H04Q3/0029 (EP,US);
H04Q2213/13256 (EP,US);
Y10S379/903 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [1996/51] | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUM SCHUTZ CHEMISCHER BADEDICHTUNGEN | [1999/13] | English: | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING CHEMICAL BATH SEALS | [1996/51] | French: | PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DE PROTECTION DES JOINTS DE BAINS CORROSIFS | [1996/51] |
| Former [1996/51] | VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUM SCHUTZ CHEMISCHE BADESDICHTUNGEN | Entry into regional phase | 27.08.1996 | National basic fee paid | 27.08.1996 | Search fee paid | 27.08.1996 | Designation fee(s) paid | 27.08.1996 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 17.08.1995 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 27.08.1996 | Examination requested [1996/51] | 23.02.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 16.04.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.09.1999 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time | 13.09.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 13.09.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 02.09.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/46] | Request for further processing for: | 14.09.1999 | Request for further processing filed | 13.09.1999 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 01.10.1999 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.08.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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