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EP0868361
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0868361
| EP0868361 - Quick-on fuel cap [Right-click to bookmark this link] | |||
| Former [1998/41] | QUICK-ON FUEL CAP | ||
| [2002/12] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.01.2003 Database last updated on 22.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 13.02.2008 [2008/07] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states STANT MANUFACTURING INC. 1620 Columbia Avenue Connersville, IN 47331-1696 / US | [1998/41] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
HARRIS, Robert, S. R.R. 3, Box 177 Connersville, IN 47331 / US | 02 /
GRIFFIN, Jeffery Route 6, Box 414A Connersville, IN 47331 / US | [1998/41] | Representative(s) | Wright, Howard Hugh Burnby, et al Withers & Rogers LLP 2 London Bridge London SE1 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/41] | Wright, Howard Hugh Burnby, et al Withers & Rogers, 4 Dyer's Buildings Holborn, London EC1N 2JT / GB | Application number, filing date | 96943663.3 | 04.12.1996 | [1998/41] | WO1996US19589 | Priority number, date | US19950566868 | 04.12.1995 Original published format: US 566868 | [1998/41] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9720747 | Date: | 12.06.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/25] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0868361 | Date: | 07.10.1998 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 12.06.1997 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1998/41] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0868361 | Date: | 27.03.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/13] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 12.06.1997 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.04.1999 | Classification | IPC: | B65D51/16 | [1998/41] | CPC: |
B60K15/0406 (EP,US);
Y10S220/33 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1998/41] | Title | German: | Schnellverschluss für ein Kraftstofftank | [2001/32] | English: | Quick-on fuel cap | [2002/12] | French: | Bouchon de réservoir de carburant à fremeture rapide | [2002/12] |
| Former [1998/41] | HEIZUNGSVORRICHTUNG FÜR KRAFTFAHRZEUGE UNTER VERWENDUNG DES KÜHLFLÜSSIGKEITSKREISLAUFES | ||
| Former [1998/41] | QUICK-ON FUEL CAP | ||
| Former [1998/41] | BOUCHON DE RESERVOIR DE CARBURANT A FERMETURE RAPIDE | Entry into regional phase | 01.07.1998 | National basic fee paid | 01.07.1998 | Search fee paid | 01.07.1998 | Designation fee(s) paid | 01.07.1998 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 03.06.1997 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 01.07.1998 | Examination requested [1998/41] | 15.09.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 20.03.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.09.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 26.03.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 28.06.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 25.09.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.12.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 14.12.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 30.12.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/12] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 20.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 31.12.2001 | 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 | AT | 27.03.2002 | IT | 27.03.2002 | ES | 25.09.2002 | [2008/07] |
| Former [2004/04] | AT | 27.03.2002 | |
| ES | 25.09.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/09] | AT | 27.03.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5167340 (SHAW JAMES R [US]) [A] 5,10* column A; figure - *; | [X]US5385256 (BROWN DAVID M [US]) [X] 1,10 * column A; figures 1-3 *; | [A]WO9530592 (STANT MFG CO [US]) [A] 1,2,10,11,14 * abstract * | International search | [A]US3893487 (ENGELKING FREDERICK S); | [X]US4102472 (SLOAN JR PAUL H); | [A]US4690293 (URANISHI KOUJI [JP], et al); | [X]US4887733 (HARRIS ROBERT S [US]); | [Y]US5269431 (SAKATA SHINJI [JP], et al); | [XP]US5480055 (HARRIS ROBERT S [US], et al); | [XP]US5540347 (GRIFFIN JEFFERY [US]) |