EP0842686 - Distillation apparatus with heat pump [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.02.2004 Database last updated on 14.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.02.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 24.03.2004 [2004/13] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Sulzer Chemtech AG Hegifeldstrasse 10 8404 Winterthur / CH | [1998/21] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Meszaros, Istvan, Dr. Euelstrasse 51 8408 Winterthur / CH | [1998/21] | Representative(s) | Sulzer Management AG Patentabteilung / 0067 Zürcherstrasse 14 8401 Winterthur / CH | [N/P] |
Former [2000/26] | Sulzer Management AG KS/Patente/0007 Zürcherstrasse 14 8401 Winterthur / CH | ||
Former [1998/21] | Heubeck, Bernhard Sulzer Management AG, KS Patente/0007, Zürcherstrasse 12 8401 Winterthur / CH | Application number, filing date | 96810809.2 | 19.11.1996 | [1998/21] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0842686 | Date: | 20.05.1998 | Language: | DE | [1998/21] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0842686 | Date: | 02.04.2003 | Language: | DE | [2003/14] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.05.1997 | Classification | IPC: | B01D3/14 | [1998/21] | CPC: |
B01D3/007 (EP,US);
B01D3/14 (EP,US);
Y02B30/52 (EP,US);
Y10S159/40 (EP,US);
Y10S203/04 (EP,US);
Y10S203/08 (EP,US);
Y10S203/16 (EP,US)
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| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, FR, GB, NL [1999/20] |
Former [1999/05] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, LI | ||
Former [1998/21] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Destillationsanlage mit Wärmepumpe | [1998/21] | English: | Distillation apparatus with heat pump | [1998/21] | French: | Appareil de distillation avec pompe à chaleur | [1998/21] | Examination procedure | 22.10.1998 | Examination requested [1998/52] | 21.11.1998 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 21.11.1998 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) CH, FI | 27.05.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, DK, ES, GR, IE, IT, LU, MC, PT, SE | 11.05.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.09.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.11.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 30.03.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.06.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 07.10.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.12.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 07.12.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.01.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/13] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.10.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 18.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 30.10.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 18.03.1999 | AT   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | CH   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | DK   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | ES   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | FI   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | IE   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | IT   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | NL   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | PT   M01   Not yet paid | 18.03.1999 | SE   M01   Not yet paid |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE1114168 (BAYER AG) [A] 1 * the whole document *; | [A]US4023946 (SCHWARTZMAN EVERETT H) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [A]EP0155578 (LINDE AG [DE]) [A] 1-4,9 * page 7, line 7 - page 8, line 28; figure 2 *; | [A]US4626321 (GRETHLEIN HANS E [US], et al) [A] 1,6 * figure - *; | [A]EP0210888 (INST FRANCAIS DU PETROLE [FR]) [A] 1,6,9 * page 18, line 28 - page 19, line 6; figures 1,2,5,8 *; | [A] - MEILI A, "HEAT PUMPS FOR DISTILLATION COLUMNS", CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRESS, (19900601), vol. 86, no. 6, pages 60 - 65, XP000173792 [A] 1 * the whole document * |