EP2570511 - Grain boundary engineered alpha-alumina coated cutting tool [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The patent has been granted Status updated on 15.02.2019 Database last updated on 08.11.2024 | |
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Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 20.11.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 26.07.2024 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AT | published on 28.08.2024 [2024/35] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Walter AG Derendinger Strasse 53 72072 Tübingen / DE | [2013/12] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Stiens, Dirk Pestalozzistrasse 128 72762 Reutlingen / DE | 02 /
Ruppi, Sakari Rua Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Lote 2, 3B 8600-780 Lagos / PT | [2018/52] |
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Stiens, Dirk Pestalozzistrasse 63/3 72762 Reutlingen / DE | ||
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Stiens, Dirk Hans-Reyhing-Str. 63/3 72762 Reutlingen / DE | ||
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Ruppi, Sakari Quenstedt Str. 12 72076 Tübingen / DE | Representative(s) | WSL Patentanwälte Partnerschaft mbB Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 98 65185 Wiesbaden / DE | [2019/12] |
Former [2013/12] | WSL Patentanwälte Partnerschaftsgesellschaft Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 98 65185 Wiesbaden / DE | Application number, filing date | 11181643.5 | 16.09.2011 | [2013/12] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2570511 | Date: | 20.03.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2570511 | Date: | 20.03.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/12] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.02.2012 | Classification | IPC: | C23C16/40, C23C16/52, C23C30/00 | [2013/12] | CPC: |
C23C16/403 (EP,US);
C23C16/52 (EP,US);
C23C30/005 (EP,US);
Y10T428/24975 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2019/12] |
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