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EP0823396
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| EP0823396 - Improvements in or relating to counter-balancing load carriers [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.01.2003 Database last updated on 19.04.2025 | 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 Vitec Group plc Western Way Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3TB / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/07] | For all designated states Vitec Group plc Western Way Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3TB / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lindsay, Richard Arthur 2 St. Mary's Close, Gislingham Eye, Suffolk IP23 8HW / GB | [1998/07] | Representative(s) | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/07] | Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT, 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 97118872.7 | 01.12.1993 | [1998/07] | Priority number, date | GB19920025102 | 01.12.1992 Original published format: GB 9225102 | GB19930002700 | 11.02.1993 Original published format: GB 9302700 | [1998/07] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0823396 | Date: | 11.02.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/07] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0823396 | Date: | 18.03.1998 | [1998/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0823396 | Date: | 27.03.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/13] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.01.1998 | Classification | IPC: | B66F11/04, F16M11/04, F16M11/12, F16M11/42 | [1998/12] | CPC: |
F16M11/18 (EP);
B66F11/048 (EP);
F16M11/10 (EP);
F16M11/2064 (EP);
F16M11/2092 (EP);
F16M11/42 (EP);
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| Former IPC [1998/07] | B66F11/04 | Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1998/07] | Title | German: | Ausgeglichener Lastenträger | [1998/07] | English: | Improvements in or relating to counter-balancing load carriers | [1998/07] | French: | Support de charge contre-balancé | [1998/07] | Examination procedure | 30.10.1997 | Examination requested [1998/07] | 07.08.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.09.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.12.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 18.12.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP94900957.5 / EP0725758 | Opposition(s) | 30.12.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/12] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 04.10.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 16.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 19.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | FR | 27.03.2002 | IT | 27.03.2002 | ES | 25.09.2002 | [2008/07] |
| Former [2006/14] | FR | 27.03.2002 | |
| ES | 25.09.2002 | ||
| Former [2004/04] | ES | 25.09.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]FR2611826 (MASSERON ET AL.) [A] 1,3-5,10,17 * abstract * * page 4, line 18 - line 27 * * page 8, line 9 - line 18 * * page 9, line 13 - line 25 * * page 17, line 7 - line 25 * * figures 1,4,5 *; | [A]GB2207109 (MASSERON ET AL.) [A] 1-4,9,10,17 * abstract * * page 5, line 23 - page 6, line 4 * * page 15, paragraph L * * page 16, paragraph 1 * * page 33, line 6 - line 22 *; | [A]US4943019 (MESTER) [A] 1,3,9,10,17 * abstract * * column 2, line 45 - line 46 * * column 3, line 15 - line 23 *; | [A]DE3334428 (HELLER) [A] 1-3,13,17 * figures 5,6 * * page 13, the last 6 lines ( fig. 5 ) * * page 14, second paragraph - page 15, line 7 ( fig. 6 ) *; | [A]GB2043026 (MARK INDUSTRIES) [A] 1 * figure 2 * * page 2, line 6 - line 12 *; | [A]US4775029 (MAC DONALD ET AL.) [A] 1 * figures 1,4,5 * * column 4, line 44 - line 60 *; | [A]DE2828694 (SALOMATIN ET AL.) [A] 1,3 * the whole document *; | [DA]GB2163720 (W VINTEN LTD.) [DA] 9,10 * abstract * * page 2, line 3 - line 29 * |