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EP About this file: EP0793230

EP0793230 - Disc cartridge with disc locking mechanism [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.12.2000
Database last updated on 20.12.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip11.01.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 13.02.2008  [2008/07]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CD Plant Tecval S.A.
Zone industrielle du Day
1337 Vallorbe / CH
[1997/36]
Inventor(s)01 / Tricart, Philippe
Uttins 4
1337 Vallorbe / CH
[1997/36]
Representative(s)Hranitzky, Wilhelm Max, et al
c/o WILLIAM BLANC & CIE Conseils en Propriété Industrielle SA 25, Avenue du Pailly
1220 Les Avanchets/Genève / CH
[N/P]
Former [1997/36]Hranitzky, Wilhelm Max, et al
c/o WILLIAM BLANC & CIE 9, rue du Valais
1202 Genève / CH
Application number, filing date97102638.019.02.1997
[1997/36]
Priority number, dateUS1996060772627.02.1996         Original published format: US 607726
[1997/36]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0793230
Date:03.09.1997
Language:EN
[1997/36]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0793230
Date:07.01.1998
[1998/02]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0793230
Date:23.02.2000
Language:EN
[2000/08]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP19.11.1997
ClassificationIPC:G11B23/03, G11B33/04
[1997/51]
CPC:
G11B33/04 (EP,US); G11B23/0306 (EP,US); G11B23/0307 (EP,US);
G11B23/0316 (EP,US); G11B23/0317 (EP,US); G11B33/0427 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1997/36]G11B23/03
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   SE [1997/36]
TitleGerman:Plattenkassette mit Plattenverriegelungsmechanismus[1997/36]
English:Disc cartridge with disc locking mechanism[1997/36]
French:Cassette à disque avec mécanisme de verrouillage de disque[1997/36]
Examination procedure12.12.1997Examination requested  [1998/10]
12.12.1997Request for accelerated examination filed
05.02.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
05.02.1998Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes
08.06.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.07.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
22.01.1999Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.03.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
04.05.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
31.05.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.08.1999Fee for grant paid
07.08.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)24.11.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2001/06]
Fees paidRenewal fee
28.12.1998Renewal fee patent year 03
17.12.1999Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT23.02.2000
SE23.05.2000
[2008/07]
Former [2001/09]SE23.05.2000
Documents cited:Search[A]US4543619  (PASTOR SHELDON L [US]) [A] 1 * figure 3; claims 1,2 *;
 [A]US4688127  (OISHI KENGO [JP], et al) [A] 1 * figures 1,4; claim 1 *;
 [A]EP0351160  (MINNESOTA MINING & MFG [US], et al) [A] 1 * column 4, line 43 - column 5, line 54; figures 1A,1B *;
 [A]EP0369651  (MINNESOTA MINING & MFG [US]) [A] 1 * column 4, line 42 - column 5, line 8; figures 3,4 *;
 [DA]EP0570342  (TECVAL MEMORIES SA [CH]) [DA] 1-15 * The whole document *;
 [PA]US5573120  (KAUFMAN HARRISON [US], et al) [PA] 1* figure 1 *
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