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EP About this file: EP0023901

EP0023901 - ROUTER BIT ASSEMBLY FOR AN EARTH WORKING APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  07.05.1984
Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.04.2015Change - lapse in a contracting statepublished on 20.05.2015  [2015/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
100 Northeast Adams Street Peoria
Illinois 61629 / US
[N/P]
Former [1981/07]For all designated states
CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO.
100 Northeast Adams Street
Peoria, Illinois 61629 / US
Inventor(s)01 / MERKEL, Russel Dwane
R.R. No. 1, Stellon Street
Coal City, IL 60416 / US
[1981/07]
Representative(s)Jackson, Peter Arthur
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
[N/P]
Former [1981/07]Jackson, Peter Arthur
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date79901114.315.02.1979
[1981/07]
WO1979US00090
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report
No.:WO8001700
Date:21.08.1980
[1980/19]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0023901
Date:18.02.1981
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 21.08.1980 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1981/07]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0023901
Date:22.06.1983
Language:EN
[1983/25]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP17.06.1981
ClassificationIPC:E02F9/28, E02F3/62, F16B19/00
[1981/07]
CPC:
E02F3/6454 (EP,US); E02F3/65 (EP,US); E02F3/658 (EP,US);
E02F9/28 (EP,US); Y10S37/903 (EP,US); Y10T403/75 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesFR,   GB [1981/22]
Former [1981/07]CH,  DE,  FR,  GB,  SE 
TitleGerman:SCHNEIDE-BOHR-EINHEIT FÜR EINEN ERDBEARBEITUNGSAPPARAT[1981/07]
English:ROUTER BIT ASSEMBLY FOR AN EARTH WORKING APPARATUS[1981/07]
French:ASSEMBLAGE POUR DENT DE COUPE LATERALE DANS UN ENGIN DE TERRASSEMENT[1981/07]
File destroyed:12.06.1999
Entry into regional phase04.07.1980National basic fee paid 
04.07.1980Search fee paid 
04.07.1980Designation fee(s) paid 
04.07.1980Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure08.07.1980Examination requested  [1981/07]
15.12.1980Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) CH, DE, SE
25.02.1981Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
18.08.1982Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: )
10.11.1982Communication of intention to grant the patent
10.12.1982Fee for grant paid
10.12.1982Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)23.03.1984No opposition filed within time limit [1984/28]
Fees paidRenewal fee
18.12.1980Renewal fee patent year 03
20.12.1981Renewal fee patent year 04
22.12.1982Renewal fee patent year 05
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Former [1989/37]GB15.02.1984
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 [A]US3465833  (LUTZ KENNETH V);
 [A]US3961788  (HELTON EUGENE L, et al);
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