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EP About this file: EP0835051

EP0835051 - A SOIL PENETRATING TOOL ASSEMBLY [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  24.01.2003
Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip05.12.2003Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): ES
published on 21.01.2004  [2004/04]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Yeomans, Allan James
60 Sunrise Boulevard
Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 / AU
[N/P]
Former [1998/16]For all designated states
YEOMANS, Allan James
60 Sunrise Boulevard
Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 / AU
Inventor(s)01 / see applicant
...
[1998/16]
Representative(s)Gee, Steven William
D.W. & S.W. GEE
1 South Lynn Gardens
London Road
Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire CV36 4ER / GB
[N/P]
Former [1998/16]Gee, Steven William
Farmhouse Court, Marston
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B76 0DW / GB
Application number, filing date95924096.130.06.1995
[1998/16]
WO1995AU00396
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9701949
Date:23.01.1997
Language:EN
[1997/05]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0835051
Date:15.04.1998
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 23.01.1997 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1998/16]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0835051
Date:20.03.2002
Language:EN
[2002/12]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:AU23.01.1997
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP01.10.1999
ClassificationIPC:A01B61/04
[1998/16]
CPC:
A01B61/046 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT [1998/16]
TitleGerman:IN DEN BODEN EINDRINGENDE GERÄTEVERBINDUNG[1998/16]
English:A SOIL PENETRATING TOOL ASSEMBLY[1998/16]
French:ASSEMBLAGE CONSTITUANT UN OUTIL POUR LABOURER LA TERRE[1998/16]
Entry into regional phase28.01.1998National basic fee paid 
28.01.1998Search fee paid 
28.01.1998Designation fee(s) paid 
28.01.1998Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure22.01.1997Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: AU
28.01.1998Examination requested  [1998/16]
26.03.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
25.07.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
13.08.2001Communication of intention to grant the patent
21.11.2001Fee for grant paid
21.11.2001Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)23.12.2002No opposition filed within time limit [2003/11]
Fees paidRenewal fee
28.01.1998Renewal fee patent year 03
12.06.1998Renewal fee patent year 04
11.06.1999Renewal fee patent year 05
23.06.2000Renewal fee patent year 06
18.05.2001Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipDE21.06.2002
ES25.09.2002
[2004/04]
Former [2003/30]DE21.06.2002
Documents cited:Search[XA]EP0109882  (HUARD UCF [FR], et al) [X] 1,2,10,11 * abstract * [A] 3-9,12-15
International search[X]SU387642  ;
 [A]SU498923  ;
 [X]DE1908381  (RABEWERK CLAUSING HEINRICH);
 [X]US4353421  (LAHTI LASSE);
 [Y]AU7944991  (JOHN WILLIAM RYAN);
 [X]GB2259839  (KVERNELAND KLEPP AS [NO])
 [X]  - DERWENT SOVIET INVENTIONS ILLUSTRATED, SECTION III, MECHANICAL AND GENERAL, Volume V, No. 16, issued 24 May 1974, Miscellaneous, page 3; & SU,A,387 642 (ALEKSANDRYAN et al.) 9 October 1973., & SU387642 A 00000000
 [A]  - DERWENT ABSTRACT, Accession No. K6412X/44, Class P11; & SU,A,498 923 (VORON FOREST INST) 14 April 1976., & SU498923 A 00000000
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