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EP0968567
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| EP0968567 - SAFETY SWITCH [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 07.12.2007 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.09.2008 | Change - opposition data/opponents data or that of the opponents representative | published on 08.10.2008 [2008/41] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states EUCHNER GmbH + Co. Kohlhammerstrasse 16 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen / DE | [2000/01] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
LINK, Walter Heimerdinger Strasse 6 D-71277 Rutesheim / DE | [2000/01] | Representative(s) | Bartels und Partner, Patentanwälte Lange Strasse 51 70174 Stuttgart / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/01] | Patentanwälte Bartels und Partner Lange Strasse 51 70174 Stuttgart / DE | Application number, filing date | 97953925.1 | 24.12.1997 | [2000/01] | WO1997EP07302 | Priority number, date | DE1997111588 | 20.03.1997 Original published format: DE 19711588 | [2000/01] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9843351 | Date: | 01.10.1998 | Language: | DE | [1998/39] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0968567 | Date: | 05.01.2000 | Language: | DE | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 01.10.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2000/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0968567 | Date: | 11.07.2001 | Language: | DE | [2001/28] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0968567 | Date: | 09.01.2008 | Language: | DE | [2008/02] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 01.10.1998 | Classification | IPC: | H03K17/95 | [2000/01] | CPC: |
H03K17/945 (EP,US);
F16P3/08 (EP,US);
G05B9/02 (EP);
H03K17/9542 (EP,US);
H03K2217/958 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [2000/01] | Title | German: | SICHERHEITSSCHALTER | [2000/01] | English: | SAFETY SWITCH | [2000/01] | French: | INTERRUPTEUR DE SECURITE | [2000/01] | Entry into regional phase | 21.01.1999 | National basic fee paid | 21.01.1999 | Designation fee(s) paid | 21.01.1999 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 23.07.1998 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 21.01.1999 | Examination requested [2000/01] | 08.12.1999 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 29.11.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 05.01.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.03.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 13.03.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 24.01.2003 | Observations by third parties | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
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ADMISSIBLE K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. Möddinghofe 30 D-42279 Wuppertal / DE Opponent's representative Sparing Röhl Henseler, et al, et al Postfach 14 04 43 40074 Düsseldorf / DE | [N/P] |
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| Opponent(s) | 01
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ADMISSIBLE K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. Möddinghofe 30 D-42279 Wuppertal / DE Opponent's representative Sparing Röhl Henseler Patentanwälte European Patent Attorneys, et al, et al Postfach 14 04 43 40074 Düsseldorf / DE | ||
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| Opponent(s) | 01
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K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. Möddinghofe 30 D-42279 Wuppertal / DE Opponent's representative Sparing - Röhl - Henseler Patentanwälte, et al, et al Postfach 14 04 43 40074 Düsseldorf / DE | 17.05.2002 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 14.11.2002 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 29.04.2005 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 29.04.2005 | Date of oral proceedings | 27.06.2005 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 27.06.2005 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 01.08.2007 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 23.10.2007 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 20.08.2005 | Appeal received No. T1096/05 | 27.10.2005 | Statement of grounds filed | 22.06.2007 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the proprietor withdrawn | 03.07.2007 | Date of oral proceedings | 25.06.2007 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | 25.06.2007 | Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 03.07.2007 | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 17.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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. | Cited in | International search | [A]JPH03228988 ; | [X]EP0229247 (RHEINMETALL GMBH [DE]) [X] 1-4,12 * page 8, line 30 - page 9, line 23 * * figure - *; | [A]DE4036575 (BAUER KABA AG [CH]) [A] 8,9* abstract *; | [X]WO9203876 (VASEAL ELECTRONICS LIMITED [GB]) [X] 1-3,12 * page 8, line 13 - line 20 * * page 9, line 1 - line 10 * * figures 1,7 * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19920107), vol. 016, no. 002, Database accession no. (M - 1197), & JP03228988 A 19911009 (DAISHOWA SEIKI CO LTD) [A] 4,5 * abstract * | other | DE3837218 | DE4041550 | DE4438039 | - "12 Sicherheit von Maschinen", GRAEF W., MASCHINEN-SICHERHET, HEIDELBERG, HÜTHIG VERLAG, (1997), pages 81 - 85, ISBN 3-7785-2633-2, XP002959720 | - "Sicherheit von Maschinen", DIN EN 60 204, BERLIN, VDE-VERLAG GMBH, (199306), pages 31 - 33, 1, XP002959721 | Opposition | DE3616389 | DE4303367 | DE19501004 | DE4412653 | EP0677830 | - hitag, System Overview, Prospekt der Mikron G.m.b.H., Philips Electronics N.V. 1996, Date of release: 10/96 | - Merkblatt für die Auswahl und Anbringung von Näherungsschaltern in Verriegelungseinrichtungen für Sicherheitsfunktionen, Berufsgenossenschaft der Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik, Fassung 7/96 |