EP0747282 - Method for determining a centre position of a vehicle steering system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.11.2001 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 16.11.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 02.01.2002 [2002/01] | Applicant(s) | For:GB
Ford Motor Company Limited Eagle Way Brentwood Essex / GB | For:DE
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Werk Köln-Niehl, Henry Ford Strasse, Postfach 60 04 02 50735 Köln / DE | For:FR
FORD FRANCE S.A. B.P. 307 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cédex / FR | [N/P] |
Former [2001/02] | For:GB
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED Eagle Way Brentwood Essex / GB | ||
For:DE
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Werk Köln-Niehl, Henry Ford Strasse, Postfach 60 04 02 50735 Köln / DE | |||
For:FR
FORD FRANCE S.A. B.P. 307 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cédex / FR | |||
Former [1996/50] | For:GB
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED Eagle Way Brentwood Essex / GB | ||
For:DE
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Werk Köln-Niehl, Henry Ford Strasse, Postfach 60 04 02 50735 Köln / DE | |||
For:FR
FORD FRANCE S. A. B.P. 307 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cédex / FR | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Marsden, Douglas William 6176 North Beech Daly Road Dearborn Heights, Michigan 48127 / US | [1996/50] | Representative(s) | Messulam, Alec Moses, et al Harrison IP Limited 3 Ebor House London Ebor Business Park Millfield Lane Nether Poppleton York YO26 6QY / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1996/50] | Messulam, Alec Moses, et al A. Messulam & Co. 24 Broadway Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 1BN / GB | Application number, filing date | 96303997.9 | 03.06.1996 | [1996/50] | Priority number, date | US19950488522 | 09.06.1995 Original published format: US 488522 | [1996/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0747282 | Date: | 11.12.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/50] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0747282 | Date: | 10.01.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/02] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.10.1996 | Classification | IPC: | B62D15/02 | [1996/50] | CPC: |
B62D15/02 (EP,US);
B60G17/019 (EP,US);
B60G2400/104 (EP,US);
B60G2400/412 (EP,US);
B60G2600/02 (EP,US);
B60G2600/12 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1996/50] | Title | German: | Verfahren zur Bestimmung der Mittelstelle eines Fahrzeug-Lenkungssystems | [1996/50] | English: | Method for determining a centre position of a vehicle steering system | [1996/50] | French: | Méthode pour déterminer la position centrale d'un système de direction de véhicule | [1996/50] | Examination procedure | 11.11.1996 | Examination requested [1997/02] | 15.02.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.05.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.03.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 13.07.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.07.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 22.07.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 11.10.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/01] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.02.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 06.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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