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EP0977963
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0977963
| EP0977963 - LIGHT ASSEMBLY [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.05.2007 Database last updated on 10.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 14.03.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 16.04.2008 [2008/16] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states British Nuclear Fuels PLC Risley Warrington Cheshire WA3 6AS / GB | [2006/26] |
| Former [2000/06] | For all designated states British Nuclear Fuels PLC Risley Warrington Cheshire, WA3 6AS / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
WILSON, Graham, John-British Nuclear Fuels plc The Product Development Centre-Capenhurst NR Chester CH1 9ER / GB | [2000/06] | Representative(s) | Goddard, David John, et al Harrison Goddard Foote LLP 4th Floor, Merchant Exchange 17-19 Whitworth Street West Manchester M1 5WG / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/06] | Goddard, David John, et al Harrison Goddard Foote, 1 Stockport Road, Marple Stockport SK6 6BD / GB | Application number, filing date | 98917418.0 | 20.04.1998 | [2000/06] | WO1998GB01151 | Priority number, date | GB19970008450 | 26.04.1997 Original published format: GB 9708450 | [2000/06] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9849489 | Date: | 05.11.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/44] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0977963 | Date: | 09.02.2000 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 05.11.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2000/06] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0977963 | Date: | 28.06.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/26] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 05.11.1998 | Classification | IPC: | F21V19/04, G21C17/08 | [2000/06] | CPC: |
G21C17/08 (EP,US);
F21V19/04 (EP,US);
G21F7/043 (EP,US);
Y02E30/30 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [2000/06] | Title | German: | LICHTVORRICHTUNGSAUFBAU | [2000/06] | English: | LIGHT ASSEMBLY | [2000/06] | French: | ENSEMBLE D'ECLAIRAGE | [2000/06] | Entry into regional phase | 17.11.1999 | National basic fee paid | 17.11.1999 | Designation fee(s) paid | 17.11.1999 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 14.10.1998 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 17.11.1999 | Examination requested [2000/06] | 30.12.2005 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.04.2006 | Fee for grant paid | 25.04.2006 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 29.03.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.03.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 14.03.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 17.03.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 17.03.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 14.03.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 20.03.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | 28.06.2006 | IT | 28.06.2006 | LI | 28.06.2006 | [2008/16] |
| Former [2007/17] | CH | 28.06.2006 | |
| LI | 28.06.2006 | Cited in | International search | [X]FR1494949 (COMMISSARIAT ENERGIE ATOMIQUE) [X] 1,3,12-14,20-22 * page 1, column L, lines 1-9 * * page 2, column R, lines 27-33 * * page 2, column R, lines 50-54; figures 1-3 * * page 1, column R, line 31- - page 2, column L, line 10 * * page 2, column L, line 36 - column R, line 3 *; | [XA]GB1109078 (COMMISSARIAT ENERGIE ATOMIQUE) [X] 1,3,4,20,22 * page 1, lines 10-22 * * page 2, line 114 - page 3, line 4; figures 1,6 * [A] 6,7,9,10,12,13; | [A]US2868992 (MONK GEORGE S) [A] 1,2,5,7,9,10 * column 1, lines 15-24 * * column 1, line 70 - column 2, line 3 * * column 6, lines 5-21; figures 1,5 *; | [A]GB503393 (WALLACE & TIERNAN INC) [A] 1,15,16 * page 1, columns 22-26 * * page 2, lines 81-87; figure 2 *; | [A]EP0331064 (EURATOM [LU]) [A] 1,4,5,20 * column 1 * * column 3, lines 10-14 * * column 3, lines 22-24 * * page 4, lines 24-35; figures 1-3 * |