EP1974646 - Cleaning element and cleaning tool [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.09.2014 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.07.2016 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): TR | published on 17.08.2016 [2016/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Unicharm Corporation 182 Shimobun Kinsei-cho Shikokuchuo-shi Ehime 799-0111 / JP | [N/P] |
Former [2008/40] | For all designated states Uni-Charm Corporation 182, Shimobun Kinsei-cho Shikokuchuo-shi Ehime 799-0111 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tsuchiya, Akemi c/o Uni-Charm Corporation Technical Center 1531-7 Aza Takasuka Toyohama-cho Wadahama Kanonji-shi Kagawa-ken 769-1602 / JP | 02 /
Tanaka, Yoshinori c/o Uni-Charm Corporation Technical Center 1531-7 Aza Takasuka Toyohama-cho Wadahama Kanonji-shi Kagawa-ken 769-1602 / JP | 03 /
Policicchio, Nicola, John 4976 Laurelwood Court Mason, Ohio 45040 / US | 04 /
Switzer, Andrea, Pfarr 6804 Mossy Rock Court Maineville, Ohio 45039 / US | [2013/44] |
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Tsuchiya, Akemi c/o Uni-Charm Corporation Technical Center 1531-7 Aza Takasuka Toyohama-cho Wadahama Kanonji-shi Kagawa-ken 769-1602 / JP | ||
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Tanaka, Yoshinori c/o Uni-Charm Corporation Technical Center 1531-7 Aza Takasuka Toyohama-cho Wadahama Kanonji-shi Kagawa-ken 769-1602 / JP | |||
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Policicchio, Nicola, John 4976 Laurelwood Court Mason, Ohio 45040 / US | |||
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Switzer, Andrea, Pfarr 6804 Mossy Rock Court Maineville, Ohio 45039 / US | Representative(s) | Murgatroyd, Susan Elizabeth, et al Baron Warren Redfern 1000 Great West Road Brentford TW8 9DW / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2013/44] | Murgatroyd, Susan Elizabeth, et al Baron Warren Redfern Cambridge House 100 Cambridge Grove Hammersmith London W6 0LE / GB | ||
Former [2008/40] | Murgatroyd, Susan Elizabeth, et al Baron Warren Redfern 19 South End Kensington London W8 5BU / GB | Application number, filing date | 08103119.7 | 28.03.2008 | [2008/40] | Priority number, date | JP20070095443 | 30.03.2007 Original published format: JP 2007095443 | [2008/40] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1974646 | Date: | 01.10.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/40] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1974646 | Date: | 09.06.2010 | [2010/23] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1974646 | Date: | 30.10.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/44] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.05.2010 | Classification | IPC: | A47L13/20, A47L13/24 | [2008/40] | CPC: |
A47L13/20 (EP,KR,US);
A47L13/16 (KR);
A47L13/24 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2008/40] | Extension states | AL | 26.11.2010 | BA | 26.11.2010 | MK | 26.11.2010 | RS | 26.11.2010 | Title | German: | Reinigungselement und Reinigungswerkzeug | [2008/40] | English: | Cleaning element and cleaning tool | [2008/40] | French: | Élément de nettoyage et outil de nettoyage | [2013/24] |
Former [2008/40] | Elément de nettoyage et outil de nettoyage | Examination procedure | 26.11.2010 | Examination requested [2011/01] | 29.11.2010 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 24.05.2013 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 19.09.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 19.09.2013 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 24.05.2013 | Opposition(s) | 31.07.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 03.03.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.03.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 21.03.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.03.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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NO | 30.01.2014 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US2004016074 (TANAKA YOSHINORI [JP]) [A] 1-6 * paragraph [0047] - paragraph [0064]; figures 1-6 *; | [A]EP1523921 (UNI CHARM CORP [JP]) [A] 1-6 * paragraph [0025] - paragraph [0078]; figures 1-6 *; | [A]US2006130260 (LEE PEI Y [TW]) [A] 1-6 * paragraph [0022] - paragraph [0026]; figures 4-9 *; | [E]WO2008097537 (JOHNSON & SON INC S C [US], et al) [E] 1-6* abstract * | by applicant | JPH09154791 |