EP2548255 - BIOFUEL AND ELECTRICITY PRODUCING FUEL CELLS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO SAME [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 31.10.2014 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 31.10.2014 | Application deemed to be withdrawn | published on 03.12.2014 [2014/49] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Board Of Trustees Of Michigan State University 450 Administration Building East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1046 / US | [2013/04] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
REGUERA, Gemma 880 Longfellow Drive East Lansing, Michigan 48823 / US | 02 /
SPEERS, Allison 6273 Beechfield Drive Lansing, Michigan 48911 / US | 03 /
YOUNG, Jenna 6267 Beechfield Drive Lansing Michigan 48911 / US | [2013/04] | Representative(s) | Danner, Stefan, et al LifeTech IP Spies Danner & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB Elsenheimerstrasse 47a 80687 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2014/11] | Danner, Stefan, et al LifeTech IP Spies Danner & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB Sankt-Martin-Strasse 53-55 81669 München / DE | ||
Former [2013/12] | Danner, Stefan, et al DR. VOLKER VOSSIUS Patent- und Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Partnerschaft Geibelstrasse 6 81679 München / DE | ||
Former [2013/04] | Haeusler, Rüdiger Hans-Jörg Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann (DHS) Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Leonrodstrasse 58 80636 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 11756992.1 | 17.03.2011 | WO2011US28807 | Priority number, date | US20100314936P | 17.03.2010 Original published format: US 314936 P | [2013/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2011116185 | Date: | 22.09.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/38] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2548255 | Date: | 23.01.2013 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 22.09.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2013/04] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | KR | 19.01.2012 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 14.10.2013 | Classification | IPC: | H01M8/16, H01M8/02, C12P7/10, C12P39/00, C12P7/06, C12P7/08, C12P7/14, // H01M8/22 | [2013/46] | CPC: |
H01M8/16 (EP,US);
C12P39/00 (EP,US);
C12P7/065 (EP,US);
C12P7/08 (EP,US);
C12P7/10 (EP,US);
C12P7/14 (US);
H01M2250/00 (EP,US);
H01M8/22 (EP,US);
Y02E50/10 (EP,US);
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Former IPC [2013/04] | H01M8/16, H01M8/02, C12P7/10, C12P7/64, C12N1/20, C12R1/01 | 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 [2013/04] | Title | German: | BIOKRAFTSTOFF UND STROMERZEUGENDE KRAFTSTOFFZELLE SOWIE SYSTEME UND VERFAHREN IM ZUSAMMENHANG DAMIT | [2013/04] | English: | BIOFUEL AND ELECTRICITY PRODUCING FUEL CELLS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO SAME | [2013/04] | French: | PILES À COMBUSTIBLE PRODUISANT DE L'ÉLECTRICITÉ ET DU BIOCARBURANT ET SYSTÈMES ET PROCÉDÉS LIÉS À CELLES-CI | [2013/04] | Entry into regional phase | 17.09.2012 | National basic fee paid | 17.09.2012 | Search fee paid | 17.09.2012 | Designation fee(s) paid | 17.09.2012 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 17.09.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 17.09.2012 | Examination requested [2013/04] | 13.05.2014 | Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2014/49] | 08.07.2014 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time [2014/49] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.03.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.03.2014 | 04   M06   Not yet paid |
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