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EP0826012
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| EP0826012 - BIODEGRADABLE ALKYLENE OXIDE-LACTONE COPOLYMERS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 22.03.2002 Database last updated on 09.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 29.10.2004 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): GR | published on 15.12.2004 [2004/51] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY 2030 Dow Center Midland, Michigan 48674 / US | [1998/10] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
NACE, Vaughn, Mark 222 Huckleberry Drive Lake Jackson, TX 77566 / US | [1998/10] | Representative(s) | Raynor, John Beck Greener Fulwood House 12 Fulwood Place London WC1V 6HR / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/10] | Raynor, John W.H. Beck, Greener & Co 7 Stone Buildings Lincoln's Inn London WC2A 3SZ / GB | Application number, filing date | 96913828.8 | 23.04.1996 | [1998/10] | WO1996US05672 | Priority number, date | US19950444117 | 18.05.1995 Original published format: US 444117 | [1998/10] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9636656 | Date: | 21.11.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/51] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0826012 | Date: | 04.03.1998 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.11.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1998/10] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0826012 | Date: | 16.05.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/20] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 21.11.1996 | Classification | IPC: | C08G63/664 | [1998/10] | CPC: |
C08G63/664 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1998/10] | Title | German: | BIOABBAUBARE ALKYLENOXYD-LAKTON COPOLYMER | [1998/10] | English: | BIODEGRADABLE ALKYLENE OXIDE-LACTONE COPOLYMERS | [1998/10] | French: | COPOLYMERES BIODEGRADABLES D'OXYDE D'ALKYLENE ET DE LACTONE | [1998/10] | Entry into regional phase | 17.12.1997 | National basic fee paid | 17.12.1997 | Designation fee(s) paid | 17.12.1997 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 13.12.1996 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 17.12.1997 | Examination requested [1998/10] | 05.08.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08) | 15.02.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 19.04.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 19.10.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.04.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.08.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.09.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 28.09.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 19.02.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/19] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 17.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.03.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.03.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 09.02.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | PT | 16.08.2001 | GR | 17.08.2001 | [2004/51] |
| Former [2002/27] | PT | 16.08.2001 | Cited in | International search | [DX]US2962524 (FRITZ HOSTETTLER ET AL.) [DX] 1-12,15-20 * column 1, lines 15-20; examples 8-18,22-24; claims 1-23 *; | [X]GB2016491 (UGINE KUHLMANN) [X] 1-14 * claims 1-10 *; | [D]US4291155 (BROCHET JACQUES) |