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EP0887540
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0887540
| EP0887540 - Exhaust gas recirculation valve [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.11.2003 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.04.2015 | Change - lapse in a contracting state | published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Eaton Corporation Eaton Center, 1111 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2584 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/01] | For all designated states EATON CORPORATION Eaton Center, 1111 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2584 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Turner, David 2837 Whittier Drive Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 / US | 02 /
Lorenz, Edwin D. 4393 E. Cook Road Grand Blanc, MI 48439 / US | 03 /
Lilley, Glen R. 1731 Lone Pine Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 / US | [1999/01] | Representative(s) | Clarke, Geoffrey Howard Eaton B.V. P.O. Box 75777 1118 ZX Luchthaven Schiphol / NL | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/01] | Clarke, Geoffrey Howard Eaton Ltd., Eaton House, Staines Road Hounslow, Middlesex TW4 5DX / GB | Application number, filing date | 98304883.6 | 22.06.1998 | [1999/01] | Priority number, date | US19970881622 | 24.06.1997 Original published format: US 881622 | [1999/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0887540 | Date: | 30.12.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/53] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0887540 | Date: | 08.09.1999 | [1999/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0887540 | Date: | 22.01.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/04] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.07.1999 | Classification | IPC: | F02M25/07 | [1999/01] | CPC: |
F02M26/68 (EP,US);
F02M26/54 (EP,US);
F02M26/67 (EP,US);
F02M26/73 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [2000/20] |
| Former [1999/01] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Abgasrückführungsventil | [1999/01] | English: | Exhaust gas recirculation valve | [1999/01] | French: | Soupape de recirculation de gaz d'échappement | [1999/01] | Examination procedure | 12.02.2000 | Examination requested [2000/15] | 09.03.2000 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 23.05.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.07.2000 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) SE | 05.12.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.02.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 01.03.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.10.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 07.03.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.04.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 05.08.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.11.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 04.11.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 23.10.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/03] | Request for further processing for: | 05.12.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 05.12.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 27.12.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 05.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 05.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 07.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 12.04.2000 | SE M02 Not yet paid |
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| Former [2004/05] | DE | 23.04.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [XY]US4646705 (BABITZKA RUDOLF [DE], et al) [X] 1,2 * column 3, line 49 - line 64 * * column 4, line 18 - line 45 * * column 4, line 60 - line 68 * * column 5, line 6 - line 10 * [Y] 3; | [Y]JPH05106520 ; | [A]JPH07167324 ; | [A]US4473056 (ISHIDA TAKASHI [JP], et al) [A] 1,2,4 * column 3, line 27 - column 4, line 6; figures 3,4 *; | [A]US5351935 (MIYOSHI SOTSUO [JP], et al) [A] 1-5 * column 6, line 48 - line 52 * * column 9, line 10 - line 37; figures 4-6 * | [Y] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19930825), vol. 17, no. 465, Database accession no. (M - 1468), & JP05106520 A 19930427 (AISAN) [Y] 3 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19951130), vol. 95, no. 10, & JP07167324 A 19950704 (TOYOTA) [A] 1-3 * abstract * | by applicant | US5035228 | US5606957 |