EP2292335 - Centrifuge with shaft-coupling capable of maintaining motor shaft concentricity [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.04.2014 Database last updated on 15.01.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.04.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit | published 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 date | 10012477.5 | 16.06.2000 | [2011/10] | Priority number, date | US19990334956 | 17.06.1999 Original published format: US 334956 | [2011/10] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | 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: | EP | 22.12.2010 | Classification | IPC: | 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 states | DE [2013/23] |
Former [2011/17] | |||
Former [2011/10] | DE, FR | Title | German: | 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 procedure | 11.03.2011 | Examination requested [2011/17] | 18.10.2011 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the Extended European Search Report/Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority/International Preliminary Examination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 | 20.10.2011 | Request for decision received: Application is deemed to be withdrawn | 16.11.2011 | Result of request for decision (Application is deemed to be withdrawn): Request accepted | 05.02.2013 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.04.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 18.04.2013 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP00941477.2 / 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) | 06.03.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/20] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 01.10.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 30.08.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 27.06.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 13 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 30.06.2011 | 12   M06   Fee paid on   30.08.2011 |
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