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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Status	The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 31.10.2014 Database last updated on 31.08.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	31.10.2014	Application deemed to be withdrawn	published on 03.12.2014 [2014/49]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); Y02E50/30 (EP,US); Y02E60/50 (EP,US) (-)
	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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