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EP0966208 - FORTIFIED CONFECTIONERY DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  19.01.2004
Database last updated on 22.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip11.01.2019Change - classificationpublished on 13.02.2019  [2019/07]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Route 206 and Province Line Road
Princeton, NJ 08543 / US
[N/P]
Former [1999/52]For all designated states
BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY
P.O. Box 4000
Princeton, NJ 08543-4000 / US
Inventor(s)01 / YANG, BaoKang
2616 Secretariat Court
Evansville, IN 47720 / US
02 / MARTINEZ, Sarah, B.
3388 Avondale Drive
Newburgh, IN 47630 / US
[1999/52]
Representative(s)Adams, Harvey Vaughan John, et al
Mathys & Squire LLP The Shard
32 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9SG / GB
[N/P]
Former [2001/22]Adams, Harvey Vaughan John, et al
Mathys & Squire, 100 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8AL / GB
Former [1999/52]Mays, Julie
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Limited, Patent Department, Swakeleys House, Milton Road
Ickenham, Uxbridge UB10 8NS / GB
Application number, filing date98959486.617.11.1998
[1999/52]
WO1998US24554
Priority number, dateUS1997097748724.11.1997         Original published format: US 977487
[1999/52]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9926491
Date:03.06.1999
Language:EN
[1999/22]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0966208
Date:29.12.1999
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.06.1999 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1999/52]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0966208
Date:12.03.2003
Language:EN
[2003/11]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:US03.06.1999
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP15.03.2000
ClassificationIPC:A23L1/30, A23G3/00
[1999/52]
CPC:
A23G3/36 (EP); A23G3/362 (EP); A23G3/368 (EP);
A23G3/42 (EP); A23L33/15 (EP); A23L33/155 (EP);
A23L33/16 (EP); A23V2002/00 (EP) (-)
C-Set:
A23V2002/00, A23V2250/1578, A23V2250/161, A23V2250/1618 (EP);
A23V2002/00, A23V2250/18, A23V2250/5424, A23V2250/61, A23V2250/628, A23V2250/1842, A23V2250/5036, A23V2250/156, A23V2250/71 (EP);
A23V2002/00, A23V2250/5424, A23V2250/606, A23V2250/616, A23V2250/18, A23V2250/5036, A23V2250/156, A23V2250/71 (EP);
A23V2002/00, A23V2250/5424, A23V2250/60, A23V2250/18, A23V2250/6406, A23V2250/1886, A23V2250/1842, A23V2250/5036, A23V2250/5108, A23V2250/156 (EP);
A23V2002/00, A23V2250/5424, A23V2250/616, A23V2250/628, A23V2250/5036, A23V2250/1842, A23V2250/156, A23V2250/71, A23V2250/7142 (EP)
(-)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   DK,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   IE,   IT,   LI,   NL,   PT,   SE [1999/52]
TitleGerman:ANGEREICHERTE SUSSWARENABGABESYSTEME SOWIE VERFAHREN ZU IHRER HERSTELLUNG[1999/52]
English:FORTIFIED CONFECTIONERY DELIVERY SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF[1999/52]
French:SYSTEMES D'APPORT DE CONFISERIE ENRICHIE ET PROCEDES DE PREPARATION DE CEUX-CI[1999/52]
Entry into regional phase24.08.1999National basic fee paid 
24.08.1999Search fee paid 
24.08.1999Designation fee(s) paid 
03.12.1999Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure03.12.1999Examination requested  [2000/05]
16.08.2001Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
18.02.2002Reply to a communication from the examining division
30.07.2002Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.12.2002Fee for grant paid
02.12.2002Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)EP03004327.7  / EP1340428
EP08104674.0   Application deemed to be withdrawn  : 09.08.2008
Opposition(s)15.12.2003No opposition filed within time limit [2004/10]
Fees paidRenewal fee
13.11.2000Renewal fee patent year 03
14.11.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
13.11.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
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Former [2018/28]ES12.03.2003
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 [Y]  - MINIFIE B, "CHOCOLATE, COCOA, AND CONFECTIONERY", CHOCOLATE, COCOA AND CONFECTIONERY: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, XX, XX, XX, (19890101), page 788/789, XP002916713
 [Y]  - DEMAN J M, "PRINCIPLES OF FOOD CHEMISTRY, PASSAGE", PRINCIPLES OF FOOD CHEMISTRY, XX, XX, XX, (19900101), pages 143 - 152 + 163, XP002916714
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