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EP0772406
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0772406
| EP0772406 - LIQUID SAUCE OR SOUP [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.07.1999 Database last updated on 17.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.09.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): DK | published on 05.11.2003 [2003/45] | Applicant(s) | For:GB
IE
Unilever PLC Unilever House Blackfriars London Greater London EC4P 4BQ / GB | For:AT
BE
CH
DE
DK
ES
FR
GR
IT
LI
NL
PT
SE
Unilever N.V. Weena 455 3013 AL Rotterdam / NL | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/20] | For:GB
IE
UNILEVER PLC Unilever House Blackfriars London EC4P 4BQ / GB | ||
| For:AT
BE
CH
DE
DK
ES
FR
GR
IT
LI
NL
PT
SE
UNILEVER N.V. Weena 455 3013 AL Rotterdam / NL | Inventor(s) | 01 /
APPELQVIST, Ingrid Anne Marie 6 Crane Walk, Thorplands Brook Northampton NN3 4YE / GB | 02 /
BROWN, Charles Rupert Telford 92 Castle Road Bedford MK40 3PS / GB | 03 /
NORTON, Ian Timothy 29 Croft Way, Rushden Northampton NN10 9EZ / GB | [1997/20] | Representative(s) | Sikken, Antonius H. J. M., et al Unilever N.V. Unilever Intellectual Property Group Olivier van Noortlaan 120 3133 AT Vlaardingen / NL | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/49] | Sikken, Antonius H. J. M., et al UNILEVER N.V., Patent Division, P.O. Box 137 3130 AC Vlaardingen / NL | ||
| Former [1997/20] | Eke, Philippa Dianne, et al Unilever plc Patent Division Colworth House Sharnbrook Bedford MK44 1LQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 95925767.6 | 24.06.1995 | [1997/20] | WO1995EP02487 | Priority number, date | EP19940305213 | 15.07.1994 Original published format: EP 94305213 | [1997/20] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9602152 | Date: | 01.02.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/06] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0772406 | Date: | 14.05.1997 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 01.02.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1997/20] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0772406 | Date: | 09.09.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/37] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 01.02.1996 | Classification | IPC: | A23L1/39, A23L1/05 | [1997/20] | CPC: |
A23L23/00 (EP,KR,US);
A23L29/20 (EP,KR,US);
A23L29/212 (EP,US);
A23L29/231 (EP,US);
A23L29/238 (EP,US);
A23L29/25 (EP,US);
A23L29/256 (EP,US);
A23L29/27 (EP,US);
A23L29/272 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, PT, SE [1997/20] | Title | German: | FLÜSSIGE SAUCE ODER SUPPE | [1997/20] | English: | LIQUID SAUCE OR SOUP | [1997/20] | French: | SAUCE LIQUIDE OU SOUPE | [1997/20] | Entry into regional phase | 21.08.1996 | National basic fee paid | 21.08.1996 | Designation fee(s) paid | 21.08.1996 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 04.11.1995 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 21.08.1996 | Examination requested [1997/20] | 12.12.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.03.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.04.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 08.04.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 10.06.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/35] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 17.06.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | GR | 09.09.1998 | DK | 09.12.1998 | PT | 14.12.1998 | [2003/45] |
| Former [2001/23] | GR | 09.09.1998 | |
| PT | 14.12.1998 | ||
| Former [1999/29] | PT | 14.12.1998 | Cited in | International search | [A]JPS63251051 ; | [A]JPH01277460 ; | [A]EP0558113 (UNILEVER NV [NL], et al) [A] 1-4; | [X]EP0602991 (CPC INTERNATIONAL INC [US]) [X] 1-4 * page 2, line 9; claims 1-3,11,12 * * page 3, line 49 - line 52 * * page 4, line 38 - line 39; example 8 * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19890210), vol. 013, no. 061, Database accession no. (C - 567), & JP63251051 A 19881018 (KIBUN KK) [A] 1 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19900126), vol. 014, no. 043, Database accession no. (C - 0681), & JP01277460 A 19891107 (SAN EI CHEM IND LTD) [A] 1 * abstract * |