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EP1201372 - Folding multipurpose tool with floating springs [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.07.2004 Database last updated on 07.06.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	26.09.2008	Change - representative	published on 29.10.2008 [2008/44]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. 12106 N.E. Ainsworth Circle Portland Oregon 97220 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2002/18]	For all designated states Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. 12106 N.E. Ainsworth Circle Portland, Oregon 97220 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / Rivera, Benjamin C. 19485 Suncrest Drive West Linn, Oregon 97068 / US
	[2002/18]
Representative(s)	Gowshall, Jonathan Vallance Forresters IP LLP Skygarden Erika-Mann-Strasse 11 80636 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2008/44]	Gowshall, Jonathan Vallance Forrester & Boehmert Pettenkoferstrasse 20-22 80336 München / DE
Former [2002/18]	Gowshall, Jonathan Vallance FORRESTER & BOEHMERT Pettenkoferstrasse 20-22 80336 München / DE
Application number, filing date	01124908.3	18.10.2001
	[2002/18]
Priority number, date	US20000703369	31.10.2000 Original published format: US 703369
	[2002/18]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1201372
	Date:	02.05.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/18]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1201372
	Date:	10.09.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/37]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	22.01.2002
Classification	IPC:	B25F1/00, B26B11/00	[2002/18]
	CPC:	B26B11/008 (EP,US); B25F1/003 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR [2002/18]
Title	German:	Klappbares Mehrzweckwerkzeug mit schwimmend gelagerten Federn	[2002/18]
	English:	Folding multipurpose tool with floating springs	[2002/18]
	French:	Outil pliable universel à ressorts flottants	[2002/18]
Examination procedure	18.10.2001	Examination requested [2002/18]
	13.09.2002	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	21.10.2002	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	14.03.2003	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	09.07.2003	Fee for grant paid
	09.07.2003	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)	EP03010485.5 Application withdrawn : 28.05.2003
	EP03012331.9 / EP1340597
Opposition(s)	14.06.2004	No opposition filed within time limit [2004/36]
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	BE	10.09.2003
	IT	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	TR	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	MC	31.10.2003
	DK	10.12.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	ES	21.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
	[2007/36]
Former [2006/51]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	TR	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	MC	31.10.2003
	DK	10.12.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	ES	21.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2005/02]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	MC	31.10.2003
	DK	10.12.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	ES	21.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/46]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	DK	10.12.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	ES	21.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/41]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	DK	10.12.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/39]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	LU	18.10.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/36]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	CY	18.10.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/31]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
	PT	22.12.2003
Former [2004/28]	BE	10.09.2003
	NL	10.09.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
Former [2004/14]	NL	10.09.2003
	GR	10.12.2003
Former [2004/13]	NL	10.09.2003
Documents cited:	Search	[A]DE217059 (WINDHÖVEL) [A] 1-5,9,10,13-20,22-25,28,29 * page 1, lines 17-30; figure - *;
		[A]GB270186 (ERNST KAUFMANN) [A] 1-5,10-26,28,29,31* page 1, lines 28-46; figure - *;
		[A]US2980996 (BERAN RUDOLPH F) [A] 1-5,10-19,21-26,28,29,31 * column 2, lines 32-51 * * column 2, line 70 - column 3, line 2; figures 1-8 *;
		[A]GB947703 (JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS LTD) [A] 1-4,8,10-19,22,25,26,28,29 * page 1, lines 52-63; figure - *;
		[A]WO9719787 (LEATHERMAN TOOL GROUP INC [US], et al) [A] 1,2,4,6,7,13-16,18-25,28-31 * page 12, lines 31-35 * * page 15, lines 17-21 * * page 19, lines 18-30; figures 5,7,8,17,23 *

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