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EP3560648 - MICRO MACHINING [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusExamination is in progress
Status updated on  09.12.2022
Database last updated on 21.08.2024
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  27.09.2019
Most recent event   Tooltip15.04.2024New entry: Renewal fee paid 
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Tek 4 Limited
18 Mandervell Road
Oadby
Leicester, Leicestershire LE2 5LQ / GB
[2019/44]
Inventor(s)01 / Duffin, Jason
c/o Tek 4 Limited
18 Mandervell Road
Oadby
Leicester, Leicestershire LE2 5LQ / GB
 [2019/44]
Representative(s)Range, Christopher William
Withers & Rogers LLP
2 London Bridge
London SE1 9RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [2019/44]Range, Christopher William
Withers & Rogers LLP
4 More London Riverside
London SE1 2AU / GB
Application number, filing date19170097.018.04.2019
[2019/44]
Priority number, dateGB2018000693927.04.2018         Original published format: GB 201806939
[2019/44]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP3560648
Date:30.10.2019
Language:EN
[2019/44]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP01.10.2019
ClassificationIPC:B23H5/00, B23H9/10, B23H9/14, B23K26/402, B23K26/382, // B23H1/00
[2019/44]
CPC:
B23K26/389 (EP); B23H7/38 (GB); B23K26/382 (US);
B23H5/00 (EP); B23H9/10 (EP); B23H9/14 (EP);
B23K26/0093 (EP); B23K26/03 (US); B23K26/0823 (EP);
B23K26/0853 (EP); B23K26/352 (US); B23K26/364 (EP);
B23K26/402 (EP); G05B19/401 (GB); B23H1/00 (EP);
B23H2500/00 (EP); B23K2101/001 (EP,US); B23K2101/34 (EP);
B23K2103/26 (EP) (-)
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 [2019/44]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
Validation statesKHNot yet paid
MANot yet paid
MDNot yet paid
TNNot yet paid
TitleGerman:MIKROBEARBEITUNG[2019/44]
English:MICRO MACHINING[2019/44]
French:MICRO-USINAGE[2019/44]
Examination procedure18.04.2019Examination requested  [2019/44]
16.03.2020Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
08.12.2022Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
31.03.2023Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paidRenewal fee
13.04.2021Renewal fee patent year 03
18.03.2022Renewal fee patent year 04
30.03.2023Renewal fee patent year 05
12.04.2024Renewal fee patent year 06
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 [X]GB2389554  (ALSTOM [CH]) [X] 12,13 * figures 1,2 *;
 [X]WO2007137903  (SIEMENS AG [DE], et al) [X] 14,15 * figures 1,2 *;
 [X]US2009142548  (PATTERSON DAVID BRUCE [US], et al) [X] 14,15 * figures 5,6 *;
 [A]US2017068231  (TAKEMOTO MASANOBU [JP], et al) [A] 3,9 * paragraph [0053] *;
 [Y]US2017320163  (HU ZHAOLI [US], et al) [Y] 1-8 * paragraph [0017]; figure 1 *;
 [A]US2018085840  (JEON CHANG BOK [KR]) [A] 5,6 * figure 3 *;
 [A]  - LI ET AL, "Sequential Laser and EDM Micro-drilling for Next Generation Fuel Injection Nozzle Manufacture", CIRP ANNALS, ELSEVIER BV, NL, CH, FR, (20060101), vol. 55, no. 1, doi:10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60393-X, ISSN 0007-8506, pages 179 - 182, XP022135424 [A] 1 * paragraph [03.6] *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60393-X
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