EP1873362 - Variable valve mechanism [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.12.2010 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.10.2012 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): TR | published on 21.11.2012 [2012/47] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Otics Corporation 10 Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho 444-0392 Aichi Nishio-shi / JP | [2008/01] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sugiura, Akira OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | 02 /
Niwa, Tetsuya OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | 03 /
Yamamoto, Tamotsu OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | 04 /
Kitagawa, Katsutoshi OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | 05 /
Hirano, Tomiyasu OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | 06 /
Miyoshi, Tomoki OTICS CORPORATION 10, Hamadashimo, Nakabata-cho Nishio-shi Aichi 444-0392 / JP | [2008/01] | Representative(s) | TBK Bavariaring 4-6 80336 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2008/01] | TBK-Patent Bavariaring 4-6 80336 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 07103921.8 | 12.03.2007 | [2008/01] | Priority number, date | JP20060177356 | 27.06.2006 Original published format: JP 2006177356 | [2008/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1873362 | Date: | 02.01.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1873362 | Date: | 17.02.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/07] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.10.2007 | Classification | IPC: | F01L13/00 | [2008/01] | CPC: |
F01L13/0021 (EP,US);
F01L2305/00 (EP,US);
F01L2820/032 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2008/01] | Title | German: | Variabler Ventilmechanismus | [2008/01] | English: | Variable valve mechanism | [2008/01] | French: | Mécanisme de soupape variable | [2008/01] | Examination procedure | 22.02.2008 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 22.02.2008 | Examination requested [2008/15] | 24.03.2009 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.07.2009 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.08.2009 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.12.2009 | Fee for grant paid | 23.12.2009 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 18.11.2010 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/04] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.03.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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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 | AT | 17.02.2010 | BE | 17.02.2010 | CY | 17.02.2010 | CZ | 17.02.2010 | DK | 17.02.2010 | EE | 17.02.2010 | FI | 17.02.2010 | IT | 17.02.2010 | LT | 17.02.2010 | LV | 17.02.2010 | MT | 17.02.2010 | NL | 17.02.2010 | PL | 17.02.2010 | RO | 17.02.2010 | SE | 17.02.2010 | SI | 17.02.2010 | SK | 17.02.2010 | TR | 17.02.2010 | IE | 12.03.2010 | LU | 12.03.2010 | MC | 31.03.2010 | BG | 17.05.2010 | GR | 18.05.2010 | ES | 28.05.2010 | IS | 17.06.2010 | PT | 17.06.2010 | HU | 18.08.2010 | [2012/47] |
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Former [2010/33] | ES | 28.05.2010 | Documents cited: | Search | [DA]JPH11324625 (NISSAN MOTOR, et al) [DA] 1* abstract *; | [A]JP2002371816 (OTICS CORP, et al) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [X]WO03008772 (THYSSEN KRUPP AUTOMOTIVE AG [DE], et al) [X] 1,2 * page 9 - page 10; figure 5 *; | [X]EP1357266 (LECAL ROGER [FR]) [X] 1,2 * figures 1,12-16 *; | [E]EP1801368 (OTICS CORP [JP]) [E] 1-5 * paragraphs [0035] - [0037]; figures 12-15 * | by applicant | JPH11324625 | WO03008772 | EP1357266 | EP1801368 |