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EP0979061
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0979061
| EP0979061 - HAND-HELD HEARING SCREENER APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.04.2009 Database last updated on 10.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.01.2010 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 03.02.2010 [2010/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ETYMOTIC RESEARCH, INC 61 Martin Lane Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 / US | [2000/07] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
ISEBERG, Steve 2545 Yarrow Lane Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 / US | [2000/07] | Representative(s) | Hitchcock, Esmond Antony, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/07] | Hitchcock, Esmond Antony, et al Lloyd Wise, Tregear & Co., Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1LW / GB | Application number, filing date | 98917989.0 | 02.04.1998 | [2000/07] | WO1998US06601 | Priority number, date | US19970832277 | 03.04.1997 Original published format: US 832277 | [2000/07] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9843566 | Date: | 08.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/40] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0979061 | Date: | 16.02.2000 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 08.10.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2000/07] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0979061 | Date: | 18.06.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/25] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 08.10.1998 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.05.2000 | Classification | IPC: | A61B5/12, A61F11/00 | [2000/26] | CPC: |
A61B5/12 (EP,US);
A61B5/6817 (EP,US);
A61B2562/0219 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [2000/07] | A61F11/00 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [2000/07] | Title | German: | HANDGERÄT ZUM ERKENNEN VON GEHÖRSCHÄDEN | [2000/07] | English: | HAND-HELD HEARING SCREENER APPARATUS | [2000/07] | French: | APPAREIL DE DEPISTAGE AUDITIF A MAIN | [2000/07] | Entry into regional phase | 05.11.1999 | National basic fee paid | 05.11.1999 | Search fee paid | 05.11.1999 | Designation fee(s) paid | 05.11.1999 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 01.10.1998 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 05.11.1999 | Examination requested [2000/07] | 01.08.2000 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 04.08.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 01.03.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.07.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 24.01.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.10.2005 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 12.06.2006 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 22.08.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.11.2007 | Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 22.11.2007 | 22.11.2007 | Date of oral proceedings | 22.11.2007 | Date of oral proceedings (cancelled) | 18.12.2007 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.04.2008 | Fee for grant paid | 21.04.2008 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP04076052.2 / EP1437092 | Opposition(s) | 19.03.2009 | No opposition filed within time limit [2009/22] | Request for further processing for: | 22.08.2006 | Request for further processing filed | 22.08.2006 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 18.10.2006 | Decision despatched | 01.03.2004 | Request for further processing filed | 01.03.2004 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 23.03.2004 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.03.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 01.03.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 22.02.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 03.02.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 02.04.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 26.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 11 |
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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 | AT | 18.06.2008 | BE | 18.06.2008 | IT | 18.06.2008 | NL | 18.06.2008 | ES | 29.09.2008 | [2010/05] |
| Former [2009/14] | AT | 18.06.2008 | |
| BE | 18.06.2008 | ||
| NL | 18.06.2008 | ||
| ES | 29.09.2008 | ||
| Former [2009/09] | AT | 18.06.2008 | |
| NL | 18.06.2008 | ||
| ES | 29.09.2008 | ||
| Former [2009/01] | AT | 18.06.2008 | |
| NL | 18.06.2008 | ||
| Former [2008/50] | AT | 18.06.2008 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE3320821 (EICHHOFF WERKE) [A] 1-20* abstract *; | [A]US4687173 (GENNA ROBERT T [US]) [A] 1-20 * abstract * | International search | [A]US3295513 ; | [Y]US3882848 (KLAR IRWIN, et al); | [Y]US4057051 (KEROUAC ADRIAN R); | [A]US4592370 (LEE JOHN J [US], et al) |