EP3197015 - NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.01.2020 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 31.05.2017 | 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 Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. 1-61, Shiromi 2-chome Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka 540-6207 / JP | [2017/30] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
KITAMURA, Hiroyasu c/o Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. IP Management Department 7F OBP Panasonic Tower, 2-1-61 Shiromi, Chuo-ku Osaka 540-6207 / JP | 02 /
TSUTSUI, Mami c/o Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. IP Management Department 7F OBP Panasonic Tower, 2-1-61 Shiromi, Chuo-ku Osaka 540-6207 / JP | [2017/30] | Representative(s) | Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE | [2017/30] | Application number, filing date | 15841575.2 | 18.09.2015 | [2017/30] | WO2015JP04793 | Priority number, date | JP20140191312 | 19.09.2014 Original published format: JP 2014191312 | [2017/30] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2016042777 | Date: | 24.03.2016 | Language: | JA | [2016/12] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3197015 | Date: | 26.07.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3197015 | Date: | 27.02.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/09] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 24.03.2016 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 05.10.2017 | Classification | IPC: | H02J7/02, H02J50/60, H02J50/40, H02J50/80, H02J50/12, H02J50/00, H02J7/00, H01F38/14 | [2017/44] | CPC: |
H02J50/60 (EP,US);
H02J50/12 (EP,US);
H02J50/40 (EP,US);
H02J50/80 (EP,US);
H02J7/00034 (EP,US);
H01F38/14 (EP)
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Former IPC [2017/30] | H02J50/00, H02J7/00 | 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 [2017/30] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Validation states | MA | Not yet paid | Title | German: | KONTAKTLOSES KRAFTÜBERTRAGUNGSSYSTEM | [2017/30] | English: | NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM | [2017/30] | French: | SYSTÈME DE TRANSMISSION D'ÉNERGIE SANS CONTACT | [2017/30] | Entry into regional phase | 12.08.2016 | Translation filed | 12.08.2016 | National basic fee paid | 12.08.2016 | Search fee paid | 12.08.2016 | Designation fee(s) paid | 12.08.2016 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 12.08.2016 | Examination requested [2017/30] | 12.08.2016 | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 22.08.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.09.2018 | Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO | 30.10.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 17.01.2019 | Fee for grant paid | 17.01.2019 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 17.01.2019 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Opposition(s) | 28.11.2019 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/06] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.09.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.09.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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