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EP0832660
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0832660
| EP0832660 - Shielded needle assembly [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.06.2003 Database last updated on 10.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 23.07.2003 [2003/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Becton Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-1880 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/14] | For all designated states Becton, Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Bachman, Alan B. 59 Richard Sweet Drive Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525 / US | 02 /
Stein, Jeffrey A. 11 Pinchill Road Woodbridge, Connecticut 06525 / US | [1998/14] | Representative(s) | Ruffles, Graham Keith Marks & Clerk LLP 62-68 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1LA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/14] | Ruffles, Graham Keith MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 97307154.1 | 15.09.1997 | [1998/14] | Priority number, date | US19960719222 | 25.09.1996 Original published format: US 719222 | [1998/14] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0832660 | Date: | 01.04.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/14] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0832660 | Date: | 22.04.1998 | [1998/17] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0832660 | Date: | 31.07.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/31] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 05.03.1998 | Classification | IPC: | A61M5/32, A61M5/50 | [1998/14] | CPC: |
A61M5/3216 (EP,US);
A61M5/5086 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1999/04] |
| Former [1999/01] | AT, BE, CH, DE, LI | ||
| Former [1998/14] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Nadelschutzvorrichtung | [1998/14] | English: | Shielded needle assembly | [1998/14] | French: | Dispositif de protection d'aiguille | [1998/14] | Examination procedure | 16.10.1998 | Examination requested [1998/51] | 23.10.1998 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 23.02.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, CH, DK, ES, FI, GR, IE, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | 24.01.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 25.05.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.10.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 07.02.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 17.04.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 17.04.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 06.05.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.09.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 28.08.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.09.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 16.12.1998 | AT M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | BE M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | CH M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | DK M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | ES M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | FI M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | GR M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | IE M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | LU M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | MC M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | NL M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | PT M01 Not yet paid | 16.12.1998 | SE M01 Not yet paid |
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