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EP0709868
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0709868 - Circuit breaker [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 30.08.2002 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 30.08.2002 | Patent maintained (B2 publication) | published on 16.10.2002 [2002/42] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 2-3, Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/18] | For all designated states MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 2-3, Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Iio, Tsukasa, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K. K. Fukayama Seisakusho, 1-8 Midori-machi Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima 720 / JP | 02 /
Fujiwara, Kohei, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K. K. Fukayama Seisakusho, 1-8 Midori-machi Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima 720 / JP | 03 /
Matsumoto, Shuuji, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K. K. Fukayama Seisakusho, 1-8 Midori-machi Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima 720 / JP | 04 /
Terasawa, Masami, c/o Mitsubishi Denki K. K. Fukayama Seisakusho, 1-8 Midori-machi Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima 720 / JP | 05 /
Matsumoto, Shigeru c/o Mitsubishi El. Eng. Co Ltd. Himeji Jigyosho Fukuyama Shisho 1-8, Midori-machi Fukuyama-shi iroshima 720 / JP | [1996/18] | Representative(s) | Winter, Brandl - Partnerschaft mbB Alois-Steinecker-Straße 22 85354 Freising / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/18] | KUHNEN, WACKER & PARTNER Alois-Steinecker-Strasse 22 D-85354 Freising / DE | Application number, filing date | 94119681.8 | 13.12.1994 | [1996/18] | Priority number, date | JP19940205117 | 30.08.1994 Original published format: JP 20511794 | [1996/18] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0709868 | Date: | 01.05.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/18] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0709868 | Date: | 08.04.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/15] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0709868 | Date: | 16.10.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/42] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.01.1996 | Classification | IPC: | H01H73/04 | [1996/18] | CPC: |
H01H73/04 (EP);
H01H83/00 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [1996/18] | Title | German: | Leistungsschalter | [1996/18] | English: | Circuit breaker | [1996/18] | French: | Disjoncteur | [1996/18] | Examination procedure | 08.07.1996 | Examination requested [1996/36] | 08.09.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 27.11.1997 | Fee for grant paid | 27.11.1997 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 19.02.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
04.01.1999
ADMISSIBLE SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SA 40, avenue A. Morizet F - 92100 Boulogne Billancourt / FR Opponent's representative Ritzenthaler, Jacques Schneider Electric SA, Service Propriété Industrielle - A7 38050 Grenoble Cédex 09 / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/08] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
04.01.1999
ADMISSIBLE SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SA 40, avenue A. Morizet F - 92100 Boulogne Billancourt / FR Opponent's representative Ritzenthaler, Jacques Schneider Electric SA, Service Propriété Industrielle - A7 38050 Grenoble Cédex 09 / FR | 25.02.1999 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 07.09.1999 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 05.10.1999 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M04) | 05.02.2000 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 07.03.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 17.07.2000 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 22.08.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M08) | 02.05.2001 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 08.11.2001 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 08.11.2001 | Date of oral proceedings | 14.12.2001 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 16.01.2002 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 03.05.2002 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 05.08.2002 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.12.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | NL | 01.07.2000 | [2001/12] | Cited in | Opposition | Prior public use described bs statement of Mr. Marc Serpinet and 6 drawings | Precis de construction mcanique,2:Mthodes,fabrication et normalisaton 9me Edition, Nathan-Afnor 1979, pages 72-74 |