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EP0801732
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0801732 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT OF HUMAN OR ANIMAL CELL SAMPLES [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.05.2006 Database last updated on 26.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.05.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 14.06.2006 [2006/24] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Vision Instruments Limited 96 Ricketts Road Mount Waverley, VIC 3149 / AU | [1999/37] |
| Former [1997/43] | For all designated states AUSTRALIAN BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION LIMITED 96 Ricketts Road Mount Waverley, VIC 3149 / AU | Inventor(s) | 01 /
PALANDER, Jari 6 Azalea Court Mulgrave, VIC 3170 / AU | [1997/43] | Representative(s) | Findlay, Alice Rosemary Marks & Clerk LLP 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/43] | Findlay, Alice Rosemary Lloyd Wise, Tregear & Co., Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1LW / GB | Application number, filing date | 96900204.7 | 04.01.1996 | [1997/43] | WO1996AU00007 | Priority number, date | AU1995PN00389 | 05.01.1995 Original published format: AU PN038995 | [1997/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9621142 | Date: | 11.07.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/31] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0801732 | Date: | 22.10.1997 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 11.07.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1997/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0801732 | Date: | 06.07.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/27] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | AU | 11.07.1996 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.11.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G01N1/28, G02B21/34, G01N1/31 | [1999/01] | CPC: |
G01N1/312 (EP,US);
B01F31/29 (EP,US);
G02B21/34 (EP,US);
G01N1/2813 (EP,US);
Y10T436/112499 (EP,US);
Y10T436/119163 (EP,US);
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| Former IPC [1997/43] | G01N1/28, G02B21/34 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1997/43] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR BEARBEITUNG VON MENSCHLICHEN ODER TIERISCHEN ZELLPROBEN | [1997/43] | English: | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT OF HUMAN OR ANIMAL CELL SAMPLES | [1997/43] | French: | PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DE TRAITEMENT D'ECHANTILLONS DE CELLULES HUMAINES OU ANIMALES | [1997/43] | Entry into regional phase | 08.07.1997 | National basic fee paid | 08.07.1997 | Search fee paid | 08.07.1997 | Designation fee(s) paid | 08.07.1997 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 31.07.1996 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: AU | 08.07.1997 | Examination requested [1997/43] | 26.04.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 08.11.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.12.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.04.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 21.04.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 07.04.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/24] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.02.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.01.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 11.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 26.02.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 23.12.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 07.01.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 07.01.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 01.02.1998 | 03 M06 Fee paid on 25.02.1998 | 31.01.2002 | 07 M06 Fee paid on 26.02.2002 |
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