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EP2292335 - Centrifuge with shaft-coupling capable of maintaining motor shaft concentricity [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.04.2014
Database last updated on 15.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip11.04.2014No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 14.05.2014  [2014/20]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Thermo Fisher Scientific (Asheville) LLC
275 Aiken Road
Asheville, NC 28804 / US
[2011/10]
Inventor(s)01 / Carson, David M.
36 Hi Barlow Road
Newtown, CT 06470 / US
02 / Romanauskas, William Andrew
185 Main Street North
Southbury, CT 06488 / US
 [2011/10]
Representative(s)Tomerius, Isabel, et al
Lang & Tomerius
Patentanwaltspartnerschaft mbB
Rosa-Bavarese-Strasse 5
80639 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2011/10]Tomerius, Isabel, et al
Lang & Tomerius Patentanwälte Landsberger Strasse 300
80687 München / DE
Application number, filing date10012477.516.06.2000
[2011/10]
Priority number, dateUS1999033495617.06.1999         Original published format: US 334956
[2011/10]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2292335
Date:09.03.2011
Language:EN
[2011/10]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2292335
Date:05.06.2013
Language:EN
[2013/23]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP22.12.2010
ClassificationIPC:B04B9/12, B04B9/14
[2011/10]
CPC:
B04B9/12 (EP,US); B04B9/14 (EP,US); F16C27/08 (EP,US);
F16F15/10 (EP,US); Y10T74/2109 (EP,US); Y10T74/2131 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE [2013/23]
Former [2011/17]
Former [2011/10]DE,  FR 
TitleGerman:Den Rundlauf des Antriebsschafts gewährleistende Kupplung für eine Zentrifuge[2011/10]
English:Centrifuge with shaft-coupling capable of maintaining motor shaft concentricity[2011/10]
French:Centrifugeuse avec un couplage permettant de maintenir la concentricité d' un arbre moteur[2011/10]
Examination procedure11.03.2011Examination requested  [2011/17]
18.10.2011Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the Extended European Search Report/Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority/International Preliminary Examination Report/Supplementary international search report not received in time
20.10.2011Request for decision received: Application is deemed to be withdrawn
16.11.2011Result of request for decision (Application is deemed to be withdrawn): Request accepted
05.02.2013Communication of intention to grant the patent
18.04.2013Fee for grant paid
18.04.2013Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP00941477.2  / EP1214152
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP20000941477) is  19.10.2007
Opposition(s)06.03.2014No opposition filed within time limit [2014/20]
Fees paidRenewal fee
01.10.2010Renewal fee patent year 03
01.10.2010Renewal fee patent year 04
01.10.2010Renewal fee patent year 05
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01.10.2010Renewal fee patent year 10
01.10.2010Renewal fee patent year 11
30.08.2011Renewal fee patent year 12
27.06.2012Renewal fee patent year 13
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Documents cited:Search[A]DE583250  (AEG) [A] 1-15 * the whole document *;
 [A]US2827229  (JOSEF BLUM) [A] 1-15 * the whole document *;
 [A]US3770191  (BLUM J) [A] 1 * abstract *;
 [A]EP0884108  (ALFA LAVAL AB [SE]) [A] 1* column 1, line 6 - column 6, line 27; figures 1-7; claims 1-10 *
by applicantUS3770191
 US4568324
 US5827168
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