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EP1114361 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 14.10.2005 Database last updated on 26.03.2025
Most recent event Tooltip	28.03.2008	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT, PT	published on 30.04.2008 [2008/18]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Metso Automation Oy Tulppatie 1 00880 Helsinki / FI
	[2004/44]
Former [2001/28]	For all designated states Metso Automation Networks Oy Lentokentänkatu 11 33900 Tampere / FI
Inventor(s)	01 / SALONEN, Esa Minnanpiha 2 FIN-33960 Pirkkala / FI
	[2001/28]
Representative(s)	TBK Bavariaring 4-6 80336 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2005/34]	TBK-Patent Bavariaring 4-6 80336 München / DE
Former [2001/28]	Leson, Thomas Johannes Alois, Dipl.-Ing. Tiedtke-Bühling-Kinne & Partner GbR, TBK-Patent, Bavariaring 4 80336 München / DE
Application number, filing date	99952662.7	19.10.1999
	[2001/28]
	WO1999FI00863
Priority number, date	FI19980002262	19.10.1998 Original published format: FI 982262
	[2001/28]
Filing language	FI
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO0023860
	Date:	27.04.2000
	Language:	EN
	[2000/17]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1114361
	Date:	11.07.2001
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 27.04.2000 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2001/28]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1114361
	Date:	08.12.2004
	Language:	EN
	[2004/50]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	SE	27.04.2000
Classification	IPC:	G05B23/00	[2001/28]
	CPC:	G05B23/0272 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [2004/50]
Former [2001/28]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR BETRIEBSUEBERWACHUNG EINES INDUSTRIELLEN PROZESSES	[2004/48]
	English:	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING THE OPERATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS	[2001/28]
	French:	PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF PERMETTANT DE CONTROLER LE DEROULEMENT D'UN PROCESSUS INDUSTRIEL	[2001/28]
	Former [2001/28]	VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR BETRIEBSUEBERWACHUNG EINER INDUSTRIELLEN ANLAGE
Entry into regional phase	19.10.1999	Translation filed
	18.04.2001	National basic fee paid
	18.04.2001	Designation fee(s) paid
	18.04.2001	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	06.04.2000	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: SE
	18.04.2001	Examination requested [2001/28]
	23.07.2003	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	02.12.2003	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	18.05.2004	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	27.09.2004	Fee for grant paid
	27.09.2004	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	09.09.2005	No opposition filed within time limit [2005/48]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	18.10.2001	Renewal fee patent year 03
	21.10.2002	Renewal fee patent year 04
	22.10.2003	Renewal fee patent year 05
	07.10.2004	Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	08.12.2004
	BE	08.12.2004
	CH	08.12.2004
	IT	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	NL	08.12.2004
	DK	08.03.2005
	GR	08.03.2005
	ES	19.03.2005
	PT	08.05.2005
	[2008/18]
Former [2006/14]	AT	08.12.2004
	BE	08.12.2004
	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	NL	08.12.2004
	DK	08.03.2005
	GR	08.03.2005
	ES	19.03.2005
Former [2006/12]	AT	08.12.2004
	BE	08.12.2004
	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	DK	08.03.2005
	GR	08.03.2005
	ES	19.03.2005
Former [2005/51]	AT	08.12.2004
	BE	08.12.2004
	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	GR	08.03.2005
Former [2005/36]	AT	08.12.2004
	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	GR	08.03.2005
Former [2005/26]	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
	GR	08.03.2005
Former [2005/25]	CH	08.12.2004
	LI	08.12.2004
Cited in	International search	[X]US4967337 (ENGLISH ROE E [US], et al);
		[X]US5274572 (O'NEILL DENNIS M [US], et al);
		[X]US5315502 (KOYAMA KENJI [JP], et al);
		[X]US5488697 (KAEMMERER WILLIAM F [US], et al);
		[X]US5822745 (HEKMATPOUR AMIR [US])

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