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EP2502715 - Industrial robot [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.01.2023 Database last updated on 11.04.2026
Former	The patent has been granted Status updated on 18.02.2022
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 24.10.2021
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 18.05.2020
Most recent event Tooltip	28.07.2023	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT	published on 30.08.2023 [2023/35]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki 2-1, Kurosaki-shiroishi Yahatanishi-ku Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 806-0004 / JP
	[2012/39]
Inventor(s)	01 / Haniya, Kazuhiro c/o Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki 2-1, Kurosaki-Shiroishi Yahatanishi-ku Kitakyushu-shi Fukuoka 806-0004 / JP
	02 / Ichibangase, Atsushi c/o Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki 2-1, Kurosaki-Shiroishi Yahatanishi-ku Kitakyushu-shi Fukuoka 806-0004 / JP
	03 / Yamaguchi, Koichi c/o Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki 2-1, Kurosaki-Shiroishi Yahatanishi-ku Kitakyushu-shi Fukuoka 806-0004 / JP
	[2012/39]
Representative(s)	Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE
	[2022/12]
Former [2012/39]	Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Leopoldstrasse 4 80802 München / DE
Application number, filing date	12002032.6	22.10.2002
	[2012/39]
Priority number, date	JP20010324098	22.10.2001 Original published format: JP 2001324098
	JP20020037386	14.02.2002 Original published format: JP 2002037386
	[2012/39]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2502715
	Date:	26.09.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/39]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP2502715
	Date:	23.03.2022
	Language:	EN
	[2022/12]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	27.08.2012
Classification	IPC:	B25J17/02, B25J19/00	[2012/39]
	CPC:	B25J17/0283 (EP,US); B25J19/00 (KR); B25J18/005 (EP,US); B25J19/0025 (EP,US); Y10T74/20305 (EP,US); Y10T74/20311 (EP,US); (+) Y10T74/20317 (EP,US); Y10T74/20335 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [2012/39]
Title	German:	Industrieroboter	[2012/39]
	English:	Industrial robot	[2012/39]
	French:	Robot industriel	[2012/39]
Examination procedure	22.03.2012	Examination requested [2012/39]
	15.03.2013	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	25.05.2020	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	02.10.2020	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	25.10.2021	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	10.02.2022	Fee for grant paid
	10.02.2022	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	10.02.2022	Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP02777616.0 / EP1457295
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 (EP20020777616) is 24.03.2010
Opposition(s)	02.01.2023	No opposition filed within time limit [2023/09]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 03
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 04
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 05
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 06
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 07
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 08
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 09
	22.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 10
	30.10.2012	Renewal fee patent year 11
	28.10.2013	Renewal fee patent year 12
	28.10.2014	Renewal fee patent year 13
	27.10.2015	Renewal fee patent year 14
	27.10.2016	Renewal fee patent year 15
	27.10.2017	Renewal fee patent year 16
	26.10.2018	Renewal fee patent year 17
	24.10.2019	Renewal fee patent year 18
	22.10.2020	Renewal fee patent year 19
	27.10.2021	Renewal fee patent year 20
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	IT	23.03.2022
	SE	23.03.2022
	GB	21.10.2022
	[2023/35]
Former [2023/27]	SE	23.03.2022
	GB	21.10.2022
Former [2022/36]	SE	23.03.2022
Documents cited:	Search	[X] US6250174 (TERADA AKIHIRO et al.)
		[X] JPH05131388 (HITACHI LTD et al.) [X] 1,11 * abstract *
		[X] JPS61297095 (HITACHI LTD et al.) [X] 1,11 * figures 1,7,8 *
		[X] JPS60197387 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP et al.) [X] 1,11 * figure 1 *
	by applicant	JPH0739575

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