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EP1283537
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP1283537 - Rocker switch [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.08.2011 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 16.12.2011 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 18.01.2012 [2012/03] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Illinois Tool Works Inc. 3600 West Lake Avenue Glenview, IL 60026 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2010/40] | For all designated states ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 3600 West Lake Avenue Glenview, Cook County Illinois 60025 / US | ||
| Former [2003/07] | For all designated states ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. 3600 West Lake Avenue Glenview, Cook County, Illinois 60025 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Spedale, Joseph J. 5943 South Kedvale Chicago, Illinois 60629 / US | 02 /
Pedersen, Michael S. 416 W. Touhy, Lot 126 Des Plaines, Illinois 60018 / US | [2003/07] | Representative(s) | Finnie, Peter John, et al Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street London EC2A 2ES / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2005/45] | Finnie, Peter John, et al Gill Jennings & Every, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH / GB | ||
| Former [2003/07] | Rackham, Stephen Neil GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH / GB | Application number, filing date | 02255428.1 | 02.08.2002 | [2003/07] | Priority number, date | US20010925387 | 09.08.2001 Original published format: US 925387 | [2003/07] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1283537 | Date: | 12.02.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/07] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1283537 | Date: | 06.10.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/40] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 09.10.2002 | Classification | IPC: | H01H23/30, H01H5/30 | [2003/07] | CPC: |
H01H5/30 (EP,US);
H01H13/64 (KR);
H01H23/30 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [2003/44] |
| Former [2003/07] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, SK, TR | Title | German: | Wippschalter | [2003/07] | English: | Rocker switch | [2003/07] | French: | Interrupteur à bascule | [2003/07] | Examination procedure | 29.07.2003 | Examination requested [2003/39] | 15.12.2005 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.04.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.09.2009 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.11.2009 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.04.2010 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 17.08.2010 | Fee for grant paid | 17.08.2010 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 07.07.2011 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.08.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.08.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 29.08.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 29.08.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 25.08.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 25.08.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 25.08.2010 | 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 | IT | 06.10.2010 | ES | 17.01.2011 | [2012/03] |
| Former [2011/35] | ES | 17.01.2011 | Documents cited: | Search | [XY]US4436970 (SWISHER WILLIAM F [US]) [X] 1-3,7 * column 3, line 18 - column 5, line 54; figures 1-6 * [Y] 9; | [A]US4739127 (HIGUCHI MITSUTOSHI [JP], et al) [A] 1,2* figure 1 *; | [Y]EP0516544 (DAV [FR]) [Y] 9 * column 2, line 29 - line 32; figures 1,3-5 * * column 3, line 20 - column 6, line 8 * | by applicant | US4436970 | US4892988 | US4933522 | EP0516544 | US5584380 | US5598918 | US5865303 | US5898147 | US5924555 | US5950812 | US5982269 | US5986228 | US5999084 | US6066815 |