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EP0999919
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0999919
| EP0999919 - PLIERS WITH FLUSH JOINT BIAS SPRING [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 29.07.2005 Database last updated on 03.01.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 29.07.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 14.09.2005 [2005/37] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Snap-on Incorporated 10801 Corporate Drive Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158-1603 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2004/38] | For all designated states Snap-on Incorporated 10801 Corporate Drive Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin 53158-1603 / US | ||
| Former [2004/34] | For all designated states Snap-on Incorporated 2801-80th Street Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-1410 / US | ||
| Former [2004/33] | For all designated states Snap-on Incorporated 2801-80th Street Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-1410 / US | ||
| Former [2000/20] | For all designated states Snap-On Technologies, Inc. 420 Barclay Boulevard Lincolnshire, IL 60069 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
GUSTAFSON, Eric, T. 760 Sheridan Road Kenosha, WI 53140 / US | 02 /
THOMPSON, Christopher, D. 3815 South 5th Place Milwaukee, WI 53207 / US | [2000/20] | Representative(s) | Giles, Ashley Simon Haseltine Lake LLP Redcliff Quay 120 Redcliff Street Bristol BS1 6HU / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/20] | Giles, Ashley Simon Haseltine Lake & Co., Imperial House, 15-19 Kingsway London WC2B 6UD / GB | Application number, filing date | 98935780.1 | 17.07.1998 | [2000/20] | WO1998US14874 | Priority number, date | US19970901172 | 28.07.1997 Original published format: US 901172 | [2000/20] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9904934 | Date: | 04.02.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/05] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0999919 | Date: | 17.05.2000 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 04.02.1999 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2000/20] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0999919 | Date: | 22.09.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/39] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 04.02.1999 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.09.2000 | Classification | IPC: | B25B7/10 | [2000/20] | CPC: |
B25B7/10 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | GB [2000/20] | Title | German: | ZANGE MIT BÜNDIGER GELENKFEDER | [2000/20] | English: | PLIERS WITH FLUSH JOINT BIAS SPRING | [2000/20] | French: | PINCE AVEC RESSORT DE SOLLICITATION A ARTICULATION AFFLEURANTE | [2000/20] | Entry into regional phase | 14.02.2000 | National basic fee paid | 14.02.2000 | Search fee paid | 14.02.2000 | Designation fee(s) paid | 14.02.2000 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 10.02.1999 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 14.02.2000 | Examination requested [2000/20] | 13.01.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 22.05.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.07.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 31.10.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.03.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.06.2004 | Fee for grant paid | 28.06.2004 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 23.06.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 03.07.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.07.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.07.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 23.07.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 22.07.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4903558 (LE DUC DON [US]) [A] 1-7,9-14 * the whole document *; | [A]US4203208 (GENTILE ALBERT [US], et al) [A] 1,3,5-9,11-18 * column 4, line 56 - column 5, line 19; figures 3,4 * | International search | [Y]US5168629 (WILLARD FRANK [US]); | [Y]US5628115 (HEBERT PAUL W [US]) |