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EP0005370
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0005370 - Electrical connector [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 09.07.1988 Database last updated on 03.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.11.1999 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 29.12.1999 [1999/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BICC Public Limited Company 21, Bloomsbury Street London, WC1B 3QN / GB | For all designated states BURNDY CORPORATION Richards Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06856 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1983/23] | For all designated states BICC Public Limited Company 21, Bloomsbury Street London, WC1B 3QN / GB | ||
| For all designated states Burndy Corporation Richards Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06856 / US | |||
| Former [1982/14] | For all designated states BICC Limited 21, Bloomsbury Street London, WC1B 3QN / GB | ||
| For all designated states Burndy Corporation Richards Avenue Norwalk Connecticut 06856 / US | |||
| Former [1981/36] | For all designated states BICC-Burndy Limited Parr St.Helens Merseyside WA9 1PR / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Rushton Derek deceased, late of 2A Graburn Road Formby Merseyside / GB | 02 /
Warburton, Norman 11c Whitburn Skelmersdale Lancs. / GB | [N/P] | Representative(s) | Poole, Michael John, et al BICC plc Patents and Licensing Department Quantum House Maylands Avenue Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 4SJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1983/23] | Poole, Michael John, et al BICC plc Patents and Licensing Department Quantum House Maylands Avenue Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 4SJ / GB | ||
| Former [1981/36] | Poole, Michael John BICC plc Patents and Licensing Department Quantum House Maylands Avenue Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 4SJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 79300770.9 | 04.05.1979 | Priority number, date | GB19780018163 | 08.05.1978 Original published format: GB 1816378 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0005370 | Date: | 14.11.1979 | Language: | EN | [N/P] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0005370 | Date: | 09.09.1981 | Language: | EN | [1981/36] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0005370 | Date: | 24.08.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/34] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 23.08.1979 | Classification | IPC: | H01R13/20, H01R13/11 | [1981/36] | CPC: |
H01R13/20 (EP);
H01R13/115 (EP);
H01R13/50 (EP)
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| Former IPC [1981/36] | H01R13/20, H01R13/10, H01R13/12 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LU, NL, SE | Title | German: | Elektrischer Steckverbinder | English: | Electrical connector | French: | Connecteur électrique | Examination procedure | 08.01.1980 | Examination requested [1980/07] | 15.07.1980 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.10.1980 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.02.1981 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 26.02.1981 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.05.1981 | Fee for grant paid | 15.05.1981 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Appeal following examination | 18.07.1983 | Appeal received No. T132/83 | 01.10.1983 | Statement of grounds filed | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
24.05.1982
28.06.1982
ADMISSIBLE AMP Incorporated Eisenhower Boulevard Harrisburg, Pennsylvania / US Opponent's representative Gray, Robin Oliver BARON & WARREN 18 South End Kensington London W8 5BU / GB | [1985/12] |
| Former [1982/31] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
24.05.1982
AMP Incorporated Eisenhower Boulevard Harrisburg, Pennsylvania / US Opponent's representative Wayte, Dennis Travers 20 Queensmere Slough, Berkshire SL1 1YZ / GB | 29.06.1982 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 06.10.1982 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 08.03.1988 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 06.04.1988 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | Appeal received No. T132/83 | 05.08.1985 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1985/32] | 08.08.1985 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1985/32] | 28.10.1985 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1985/44] | 15.01.1986 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M02) [1986/03] | 10.03.1986 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1986/11] | 08.07.1986 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1986/28] | 27.10.1986 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1986/44] | 05.05.1987 | Date of oral proceedings | 05.05.1987 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.04.1981 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | LU | 31.05.1982 | [1999/52] | Documents cited: | Search | [AD]GB1080420 (AMP INC); | [A]US3644872 (RUSSO ANDREW JR); | [A]US3970353 (KAUFMAN JOHN WILSON); | [AD]GB1463751 (AMP INC); | [P]FR2373896 (BERNIER RAYMOND [FR]) |