EP0931959 - Continuously variable transmission [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.09.2002 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.02.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 19.03.2008 [2008/12] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V. Dr. Hub van Doorneweg 120 Postbus 500 5026 RA Tilburg / NL | [N/P] |
Former [2001/45] | For all designated states Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V. Dr. Hub van Doorneweg 120 Postbus 500 5026 RA Tilburg / NL | ||
Former [1999/30] | For all designated states Van Doorne's Transmissie B.V. Dr. Hub van Doorneweg 120 Postbus 500 NL-5026 RA Tilburg / NL | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Brandsma, Arjen Lomberdijenlaan 225 5045 WN Tilburg / NL | [1999/30] | Application number, filing date | 98200148.9 | 21.01.1998 | [1999/30] | Filing language | NL | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0931959 | Date: | 28.07.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0931959 | Date: | 07.11.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/45] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.06.1998 | Classification | IPC: | F16H9/24, F16G5/16 | [1999/30] | CPC: |
F16H9/125 (EP,US);
F16G5/16 (EP,US);
F16G5/163 (EP,US);
F16H9/24 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [2000/14] |
Former [1999/30] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Stufenloses Getriebe | [1999/30] | English: | Continuously variable transmission | [1999/30] | French: | Transmission à variation continue | [1999/30] | Examination procedure | 21.01.1998 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 28.01.2000 | Examination requested [2000/13] | 16.05.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.05.2000 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 08.09.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.11.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 09.05.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.08.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 20.08.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.08.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/44] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.01.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.01.2001 | 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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | CH | 07.11.2001 | IT | 07.11.2001 | LI | 07.11.2001 | [2008/12] |
Former [2003/01] | CH | 07.11.2001 | |
LI | 07.11.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [AX]EP0798492 (HONDA MOTOR CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1-5 * page 6, line 48 - page 8, line 18; figures 8-14 * [X] 6; | [AX]US5427579 (KANEHARA SHIGERU [JP], et al) [A] 1 * column W * [X] 6; | [DA]EP0777069 (DOORNES TRANSMISSIE BV [NL]) [DA] 1 * the whole document * | by applicant | EP0777069 | EP0798492 | - SAE Technical Paper 881734 | - NASA publication NTIS 82299: Design study of steel V-belt CVT for electric vehicles | - SAE technical paper 940735 |