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EP About this file: EP0751353

EP0751353 - Filter screen [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  02.02.2001
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip05.09.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 08.10.2008  [2008/41]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
PROTOTECH INC.
32 Freemont Street Needham
Massachusetts / US
[N/P]
Former [1997/01]For all designated states
PROTOTECH INC.
32 Freemont Street
Needham, Massachusetts / US
Inventor(s)01 / Bar-Ilan, Amiram
147 Longwood Place
Brookline, Massachusetts / US
[1997/01]
Representative(s)Enskat, Michael Antony Frank
Saunders & Dolleymore LLP
9 Rickmansworth Road
Watford
WD18 0JU / GB
[N/P]
Former [1997/23]Enskat, Michael Antony Frank
Rowland Allsop & Co., 9 Rickmansworth Road
Watford, Hertfordshire WD1 7HE / GB
Former [1997/01]Allsop, John Rowland
Rowland Allsop & Co., 10 London End
Beaconsfield, Bucks. HP9 2JH / GB
Application number, filing date96114594.317.05.1993
[1997/01]
Priority number, dateUS1992088518519.05.1992         Original published format: US 885185
[1997/01]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0751353
Date:02.01.1997
Language:EN
[1997/01]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0751353
Date:22.10.1997
[1997/43]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0751353
Date:05.04.2000
Language:EN
[2000/14]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP09.09.1997
ClassificationIPC:F24C14/00, F24C15/20
[1997/01]
CPC:
F24C15/2014 (EP,US); F24C14/00 (EP,KR,US); Y10S55/36 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesBE,   DE,   DK,   FR,   GB,   IT [1997/01]
TitleGerman:Filterschirm[1997/01]
English:Filter screen[1997/01]
French:Ecran-filtre[1997/01]
Examination procedure15.12.1997Examination requested  [1998/07]
13.08.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
11.10.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
16.10.1999Fee for grant paid
16.10.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP93303788.9  / EP0571161
Opposition(s)06.01.2001No opposition filed within time limit [2001/12]
Fees paidRenewal fee
09.01.1997Renewal fee patent year 03
09.01.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
05.05.1997Renewal fee patent year 05
25.04.1998Renewal fee patent year 06
04.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR31.05.2000
[2008/41]
Documents cited:Search[A]DE1801668  (UNITED CARR INC) [A] 1 * figure -; claim - *;
 [A]JPS5922650  ;
 [DA]US4113439  (OOKUBO TOSHIO, et al);
 [A]EP0429994  (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]);
 [A]JPH03258346
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19840518), vol. 008, no. 106, Database accession no. (C - 223), & JP59022650 A 19840204 (MATSUSHITA) [A] 1 * abstract *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19920217), vol. 016, no. 061, Database accession no. (C - 0910), & JP03258346 A 19911118 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD) [A] * abstract *
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