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EP0952431
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| EP0952431 - Optical flow meter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.08.2005 Database last updated on 28.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.03.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 23.04.2008 [2008/17] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd TransCanada Pipelines Tower, 111-5th Avenue S.W. Calgary Alberta T2P 3Y6 / CA | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/43] | For all designated states NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd TransCanada Pipelines Tower, 111-5th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 3Y6 / CA | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kiel, Darwin Edward 128 East 10 Avenue, New Westminster British Columbia V3L 4R6 / CA | 02 /
Williamson, Ian David 224 9 Street NE Calgary, Alberta T2E 4K1 / CA | [1999/43] | Representative(s) | Holmes, Matthew Peter, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 1 New York Street Manchester, M1 4HD / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/43] | Holmes, Matthew Peter, et al MARKS & CLERK, Sussex House, 83-85 Mosley Street Manchester M2 3LG / GB | Application number, filing date | 99303189.7 | 23.04.1999 | [1999/43] | Priority number, date | US19980065364 | 23.04.1998 Original published format: US 65364 | [1999/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0952431 | Date: | 27.10.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/43] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0952431 | Date: | 01.12.1999 | [1999/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0952431 | Date: | 13.10.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/42] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 14.10.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G01F1/66 | [1999/43] | CPC: |
G01P5/20 (EP,US);
G01F1/7086 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, NL [2000/32] |
| Former [1999/43] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Optischer Durchflussmengenmesser | [1999/43] | English: | Optical flow meter | [1999/43] | French: | Débitmètre optique | [1999/43] | Examination procedure | 26.05.2000 | Examination requested [2000/30] | 12.11.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.11.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.02.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 11.08.2004 | Fee for grant paid | 11.08.2004 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.07.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/40] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 02.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.04.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.04.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | BE | 13.10.2004 | ES | 13.10.2004 | IT | 13.10.2004 | NL | 13.10.2004 | [2008/17] |
| Former [2007/21] | BE | 13.10.2004 | |
| ES | 13.10.2004 | ||
| NL | 13.10.2004 | ||
| Former [2006/14] | BE | 13.10.2004 | |
| NL | 13.10.2004 | ||
| Former [2005/51] | BE | 13.10.2004 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4201467 (HARTMANN KLAUS [DE], et al) [A] 11,12,19 * abstract *; | [A]US4251733 (HIRLEMAN JR EDWIN D) [A] 11,12,19 * abstract *; | [A]GB2116699 (ITT IND LTD) [A] 1,2,4-8,11 * page 2, line 31 - line 75; figures 1,2 *; | [XA]US4707130 (HOFMANN JOERG [DE], et al) [X] 1,2,7,8 * column 1, line 6 - line 48 * * column 3, line 52 - column 4, line 5 * * column 5, line 17 - line 28; figures 6,7,10 * [A] 4-6,11,12,19-22; | [Y]EP0302431 (TITAN CORP [US]) [Y] 26,27 * abstract ** column 10, line 51 - column 11, line 11; figures 8,9 *; | [Y]US5000566 (KUPPENHEIMER JR JOHN D [US], et al) [Y] 26,27 * column 2, line 53 - line 58; figures 1,2,6 * * column 7, line 52 - line 55 * * column 8, line 46 - column 10, line 10 *; | [XA]GB2295670 (DEUTSCHE FORSCH LUFT RAUMFAHRT [DE]) [X] 1,2,7,8 * page 1, paragraph 2; figures 1-4 * * page 2, paragraph 4 - page 3, paragraph 1 * * page 4, paragraph 1 - page 5, paragraph 2 * [A] 4-6,11,12,19 |