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EP About this file: EP3150898

EP3150898 - METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CONTROL OF A MACHINE COMPONENT [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusPatent maintained as amended
Status updated on  12.04.2024
Database last updated on 19.07.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  30.07.2021
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  20.05.2021
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  07.09.2018
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  01.09.2017
FormerThe application has been published
Status updated on  03.03.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip14.06.2024Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): TR		published on 17.07.2024  [2024/29]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
B&R Industrial Automation GmbH
B & R Strasse 1
5142 Eggelsberg / AT
[2017/48]
Former [2017/14]For all designated states
Bernecker+Rainer Industrie-Elektronik Gesellschaft MbH
B & R Strasse 1
5142 Eggelsberg / AT
Inventor(s)01 / Kaufleitner, Franz
Dorfen 23
5122 Hochburg-Ach / AT
02 / Veselic, Miodrag
Drevesstrasse 4
6800 Feldkirch / AT
03 / Burgstaller, Walter
Innerwall 5
5164 Seeham / AT
 [2017/14]
Representative(s)Patentanwälte Pinter & Weiss OG
Prinz-Eugen-Straße 70
1040 Wien / AT
[2017/14]
Application number, filing date16191356.129.09.2016
[2017/14]
Priority number, dateAT2015005083501.10.2015         Original published format: AT 508352015
[2017/14]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP3150898
Date:05.04.2017
Language:DE
[2017/14]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP3150898
Date:01.09.2021
Language:DE
[2021/35]
Type: B2 New European patent specification 
No.:EP3150898
Date:15.05.2024
Language:DE
[2024/20]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP22.02.2017
ClassificationIPC:F16P3/14, G06K9/00
[2017/14]
CPC:
F16P3/144 (EP,AT,US); G06F18/00 (AT); G05B19/0428 (US);
F16P3/14 (AT); G01V8/20 (AT); G05B11/011 (US);
G06V20/52 (EP,US); G05B2219/34465 (US); G05B2219/50193 (US) (-)
Designated contracting statesAL,   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 [2017/40]
Former [2017/14]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 
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
Validation statesMANot yet paid
MDNot yet paid
TitleGerman:VERFAHREN ZUR AUTOMATISIERTEN STEUERUNG EINER MASCHINENKOMPONENTE[2017/14]
English:METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CONTROL OF A MACHINE COMPONENT[2017/14]
French:PROCEDE DE COMMANDE AUTOMATISEE D'UN COMPOSANT DE MACHINE[2017/14]
Examination procedure29.09.2016Date on which the examining division has become responsible
25.08.2017Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
28.08.2017Examination requested  [2017/40]
07.09.2018Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.11.2018Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.04.2021Date of oral proceedings
19.05.2021Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
21.05.2021Communication of intention to grant the patent
23.07.2021Fee for grant paid
23.07.2021Fee for publishing/printing paid
23.07.2021Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Opposition(s)Opponent(s)01  16.05.2022  18.05.2022  ADMISSIBLE
SICK AG
Postfach 3 10
79177 Waldkirch / DE
Opponent's representative
Rieger, Daniel-Stephan
Sick AG
Intellectual Property
Erwin-Sick-Straße 1
79183 Waldkirch / DE
 [2022/25]
16.06.2022Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition
12.10.2022Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition
10.10.2023Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition
10.10.2023Date of oral proceedings
09.11.2023Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition
09.11.2023Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings
14.02.2024Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended
27.03.2024Fee for printing new specification paid
Fees paidRenewal fee
26.09.2018Renewal fee patent year 03
24.09.2019Renewal fee patent year 04
25.09.2020Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[A]DE10224031  (LEUZE LUMIFLEX GMBH & CO KG [DE]) [A] 1-18 * abstract * * Paragraphen: : [0036]-[0047], [0053], [0057]-[0058] ** figure 1 *;
 [Y]US2005205763  (BECK MICHAEL [DE], et al) [Y] 1-18 * abstract * * Paragraphen: : [0015], [0020], [0034]-[0042] * * figures 1, 2, 3 *;
 [X]WO2014202471  (PILZ GMBH & CO KG [DE]) [X] 1 * abstract * * Paragraphen: [0054]-[0055]; [0059], erster Satz; [0060]; [0062], zweiter Satz; [0064]-[0065] * * figures 1, 2, 3 *;
 [Y]  - Anonymous, "Feldbus - Wikipedia", (20150604), URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20150604073452/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldbus, (20170210), XP055344556 [Y] 1-18 * the whole document *
by applicantEP1443343
OppositionDE19742716
 DE19939567
 DE10224031
 EP1443343
 US2005205763
 EP1876383
 WO2014202471
    - Anonymous, "Feldbus - Wikipedia", (20150604), URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20150604073452/https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldbus, (20170210), XP055344556
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