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EP1247888
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| EP1247888 - Tumble dryer [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.05.2008 Database last updated on 24.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.07.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 06.08.2008 [2008/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Indesit Company UK Limited Morley Way Peterborough PE2 9JB / GB | [2006/15] |
| Former [2003/51] | For all designated states Merloni Elettrodomestici UK Limited Morley Way Peterborough PE2 9JB / GB | ||
| Former [2002/41] | For all designated states General Domestic Appliances Limited Morley Way Peterborough PE2 9JB / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Watts, Derek John 16 Larchwood Wildwood, Stafford ST17 4SQ / GB | 02 /
Cornelius, Brian The Croft, 8 Cobbs Lane Hough, Cheshire CW2 5JN / GB | [2002/41] | Representative(s) | Lamb, Richard Andrew, et al Urquhart-Dykes & Lord LLP Altius House 1 North Fourth Street Milton Keynes, MK9 1NE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/45] | Lamb, Richard Andrew, et al Urquhart-Dykes & Lord, New Priestgate House, 57 Priestgate Peterborough, Cambs. PE1 1JX / GB | ||
| Former [2002/41] | Waters, Jeffrey Marconi Intellectual Property Marrable House The Vineyards Gt. Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM2 7QS / GB | Application number, filing date | 01309486.7 | 09.11.2001 | [2002/41] | Priority number, date | GB20000028790 | 24.11.2000 Original published format: GB 0028790 | [2002/41] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1247888 | Date: | 09.10.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/41] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1247888 | Date: | 27.06.2007 | Language: | EN | [2007/26] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.04.2002 | Classification | IPC: | D06F58/04, D06F58/20 | [2002/41] | CPC: |
D06F58/20 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IE [2003/27] |
| Former [2002/41] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR | Title | German: | Wäschetrockner | [2002/41] | English: | Tumble dryer | [2002/41] | French: | Sèche-linge | [2002/41] | Examination procedure | 20.11.2002 | Examination requested [2003/03] | 02.09.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.12.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.02.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 11.08.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.10.2006 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 09.02.2007 | Fee for grant paid | 09.02.2007 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.03.2008 | No opposition filed within time limit [2008/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.08.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.01.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.11.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 29.09.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 30.11.2004 | 04 M06 Fee paid on 22.01.2005 |
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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 | DE | 28.09.2007 | FR | 22.02.2008 | [2008/32] |
| Former [2008/24] | DE | 28.09.2007 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JPH09117597 ; | [X]US4949477 (GEIGER FRIEDRICH [DE]) [X] 1,2,4 * the whole document *; | [X]US5388348 (TANAKA MIHO [JP], et al) [X] 1,2,4 * abstract *; | [A]JPH01124500 ; | [A]FR2539153 (THOMSON BRANDT [FR]) [A] 1,3 * the whole document * | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19970930), vol. 1997, no. 09, & JP09117597 A 19970506 (SANYO ELECTRIC CO LTD) [X] 1,2,4 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (20010605), vol. 2000, no. 18, & JP01124500 A 19890517 (MATSUSHITA SEIKO CO LTD) [A] 1,3 * abstract * |