EP2948703 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DROPLET INFLATION [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.01.2020 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | |
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Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 03.11.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. 1000 Alfred Nobel Drive Hercules, CA 94547 / US | [2017/31] |
Former [2015/49] | For all designated states GnuBIO, Inc. 1 Kendall Square Building 1400, Suite 14201 Cambridge, MA 02139 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
HUNG, Tony c/o GnuBIO Inc. 1 Kendall Square Building 1400 Suite 14201 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 / US | 02 /
ESMAIL, Adnan c/o GnuBIO Inc. 1 Kendall Square Building 1400 Suite 14201 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 / US | 03 /
KIANI, Sepehr c/o GnuBIO Inc. 1 Kendall Square Building 1400 Suite 14201 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 / US | [2015/49] | Representative(s) | dompatent von Kreisler Selting Werner - Partnerschaft von Patent- und Rechtsanwälten mbB Deichmannhaus am Dom Bahnhofsvorplatz 1 50667 Köln / DE | [2019/11] |
Former [2015/49] | Von Kreisler Selting Werner - Partnerschaft von Patentanwälten und Rechtsanwälten mbB Deichmannhaus am Dom Bahnhofsvorplatz 1 50667 Köln / DE | Application number, filing date | 14743656.2 | 27.01.2014 | [2015/49] | WO2014US13198 | Priority number, date | US201361756598P | 25.01.2013 Original published format: US 201361756598 P | [2015/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2014117088 | Date: | 31.07.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/31] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2948703 | Date: | 02.12.2015 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 31.07.2014 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2015/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2948703 | Date: | 13.03.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/11] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 31.07.2014 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.08.2016 | Classification | IPC: | F16K31/48, B01L3/00 | [2016/38] | CPC: |
B01L3/502784 (EP,US);
F16K31/48 (CN);
B01L3/502715 (US);
B01L2200/06 (US);
B01L2200/0605 (US);
B01L2300/0645 (EP,US);
B01L2300/0816 (EP,US);
B01L2300/0861 (US);
B01L2300/0864 (EP,US);
B01L2300/0867 (EP,US);
B01L2300/087 (EP,US);
B01L2300/161 (EP,US);
B01L2300/1861 (US);
B01L2400/0415 (EP,US);
B01L2400/0448 (EP,US);
B01L2400/0487 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [2015/49] | F16K31/48 | 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 [2015/49] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR DURCHFÜHRUNG EINER TROPFENINFLATION | [2015/49] | English: | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DROPLET INFLATION | [2015/49] | French: | SYSTÈME ET PROCÉDÉ POUR RÉALISER UN GONFLAGE DE GOUTTELETTES | [2015/49] | Entry into regional phase | 24.07.2015 | National basic fee paid | 24.07.2015 | Search fee paid | 24.07.2015 | Designation fee(s) paid | 24.07.2015 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 24.07.2015 | Examination requested [2015/49] | 14.03.2017 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 06.11.2017 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.03.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.04.2018 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 07.06.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.08.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 19.12.2018 | Fee for grant paid | 19.12.2018 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 19.12.2018 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Divisional application(s) | EP18211262.3 / EP3473905 | The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 06.11.2017 | Opposition(s) | 16.12.2019 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/08] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.01.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.01.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.01.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.01.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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