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EP About this file: EP1610901

EP1610901 - SPRAY ELECTRODE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  08.01.2010
Database last updated on 13.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.10.2011Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): CY, TR		published on 09.11.2011  [2011/45]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Atrium Innovation Limited
Rowlandson House 289-293 Ballards Lane London
N12 8NP / GB
[2009/50]
Former [2006/01]For all designated states
Aerstream Technology Limited
Mulberry House, Osborne Road
Wokingham RG40 1TL / GB
Inventor(s)01 / PIRRIE, Alastair, Bruce
91 Plantation Road
Oxford OX2 6JE / GB
 [2006/01]
Representative(s)Skone James, Robert Edmund
Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
[N/P]
Former [2006/01]Skone James, Robert Edmund
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date04725087.301.04.2004
[2006/01]
WO2004GB01431
Priority number, dateGB2003000802107.04.2003         Original published format: GB 0308021
[2006/01]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report
No.:WO2004089552
Date:21.10.2004
Language:EN
[2004/43]
Type: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1610901
Date:04.01.2006
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.10.2004 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2006/01]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1610901
Date:04.03.2009
Language:EN
[2009/10]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP27.01.2005
ClassificationIPC:B05B5/025
[2006/01]
CPC:
B05B5/0255 (EP,US); B05B5/025 (US); B05B12/06 (EP,US);
B05B15/55 (EP,US); Y10T29/49323 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HU,   IE,   IT,   LI,   LU,   MC,   NL,   PL,   PT,   RO,   SE,   SI,   SK,   TR [2006/01]
Extension statesAL25.10.2005
HR25.10.2005
LT25.10.2005
LV25.10.2005
MK25.10.2005
TitleGerman:SPRÜHELEKTRODE[2006/01]
English:SPRAY ELECTRODE[2006/01]
French:ELECTRODE DE PULVERISATION[2006/01]
Entry into regional phase25.10.2005National basic fee paid 
25.10.2005Designation fee(s) paid 
25.10.2005Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure04.11.2004Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
25.10.2005Examination requested  [2006/01]
02.05.2006Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
07.09.2006Reply to a communication from the examining division
19.11.2007Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.03.2008Fee for grant paid
07.03.2008Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)07.12.2009No opposition filed within time limit [2010/06]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.04.2006Renewal fee patent year 03
12.04.2007Renewal fee patent year 04
27.10.2008Renewal fee patent year 05
Penalty fee
Additional fee for renewal fee
30.04.200805   M06   Fee paid on   27.10.2008
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipAT04.03.2009
BE04.03.2009
CY04.03.2009
CZ04.03.2009
DK04.03.2009
EE04.03.2009
FI04.03.2009
IT04.03.2009
NL04.03.2009
PL04.03.2009
RO04.03.2009
SI04.03.2009
SK04.03.2009
TR04.03.2009
IE01.04.2009
LU01.04.2009
CH30.04.2009
LI30.04.2009
MC30.04.2009
BG04.06.2009
SE04.06.2009
GR05.06.2009
ES15.06.2009
PT18.08.2009
HU05.09.2009
[2011/44]
Former [2011/32]AT04.03.2009
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CZ04.03.2009
DK04.03.2009
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Cited inInternational search[X]EP0486198  (ICI PLC [GB]) [X] 14,15 * column 1, line 46 - column 2, line 2 * * column 9, line 17 - line 24; figure - *;
 [X]US5511726  (GREENSPAN BERNARD J [US], et al) [X] 16,18-21 * column 6, line 10 - line 13; figure 1 *;
 [A]US5572023  (CAPRIOLI RICHARD M [US]) [A] 14,15 * column 5, line 29 - line 40 * * column 6, line 37, paragraph 56 *;
 [XAI]EP0853980  (PROCTER & GAMBLE [US]) [X] 1,2,12,13 * column 9, line 30 - line 46 * * column 10, line 19 - line 42; figure - * [A] 3-7 [I] 8-11;
 [XA]US5935331  (NAKA HIROYUKI [JP], et al) [X] 16,17,20-23 * column 19, line 1 - line 11; figure 15 * [A] 18,19;
 [X]US6318640  (COFFEE RONALD ALAN [GB]) [X] 16,17,20-23* the whole document *;
 [XI]US2002149313  (YONEKURA SEIJI [JP], et al) [X] 1,2,4,12,13 * paragraph [0037] - paragraph [0040] * * paragraph [0045] * * paragraph [0075] * * figures 1,2,12 * [I] 8-11;
 [X]US2002158196  (BERGGREN WILLIAM TRAVIS [US], et al) [X] 16,17,20-23 * the whole document *;
 [XPA]US2004011954  (PARK MELVIN A [US]) [XP] 1,2,4,8,12,13 * paragraph [0074]; figures 11A-C * [AP] 14,15
by applicantUS5961298
 WO03000431
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    - JAWOREK & KRUPA, J. AEROSOL SCI., (1996), no. 7, pages 979 - 986
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