| EP2631498 - Functional element for the fluid-tight attachment to a sheet metal part, component assembly and method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.03.2017 Database last updated on 11.04.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.07.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IS | published on 12.08.2020 [2020/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Profil Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG Otto-Hahn-Strasse 22-24 61381 Friedrichsdorf / DE | [2013/35] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Ellis, Adrian 'Jade'-172A Hockley Road Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8ET / GB | 02 /
Humpert, Richard Am Welschgraben 6 61231 Bad Nauheim / DE | [2013/35] | Representative(s) | Manitz Finsterwald Patent- und Rechtsanwaltspartnerschaft mbB Martin-Greif-Straße 1 80336 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2013/35] | Manitz, Finsterwald & Partner GbR Martin-Greif-Strasse 1 80336 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 13156283.7 | 22.02.2013 | [2013/35] | Priority number, date | DE20121003819 | 27.02.2012 Original published format: DE102012003819 | [2013/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2631498 | Date: | 28.08.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/35] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2631498 | Date: | 18.05.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/20] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.05.2013 | Classification | IPC: | F16B19/08, F16B37/06 | [2013/35] | CPC: |
F16B19/086 (EP,US);
B21J15/025 (US);
B32B3/06 (US);
F16B37/068 (EP,US);
Y10T29/49833 (EP,US);
Y10T428/24008 (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 [2016/20] |
| Former [2013/35] | 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 | Title | German: | Funktionselement zur flüssigkeitsdichten Befestigung an einem Metallblechteil, Komponentenanordnung und Verfahren | [2013/35] | English: | Functional element for the fluid-tight attachment to a sheet metal part, component assembly and method | [2013/35] | French: | Élément fonctionnel pour la fixation étanche à une pièce de tôle et procédé et assemblage de composants | [2013/35] | Examination procedure | 31.10.2013 | Examination requested [2013/50] | 24.02.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 04.05.2015 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.06.2015 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.12.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 31.03.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 31.03.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 31.03.2016 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 04.05.2015 | Opposition(s) | 21.02.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/17] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.02.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.02.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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