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EP0058135
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| EP0058135 - Z-bar guide apparatus and method of butt welding [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 28.04.1995 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ELPATRONIC AG Industriestrasse 35 8962 Bergdietikon / CH | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/23] | For all designated states ELPATRONIC AG Baarerstrasse 112 CH-6300 Zug / CH | ||
| Former [1982/33] | For all designated states SWS INCORPORATED North Frontage Road Landing, NJ 07850 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nilsen, Carl J. 5 Divido Lane Hopatcong New Jersey 07843 / US | [1982/33] | Representative(s) | Menges, Rolf Ackmann Menges Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Postfach 14 04 31 80454 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1989/06] | Menges, Rolf, Dipl.-Ing. Ackmann & Menges Patentanwälte Postfach 14 04 31 D-80454 München / DE | ||
| Former [1988/11] | Menges, Rolf, Dipl.-Ing. Erhardtstrasse 12 D-8000 München 5 / DE | ||
| Former [1986/46] | Hotz, Klaus, Dipl.-El.-Ing. / ETH c/o SOUDRONIC AG Industriestrasse 35 Postfach 11 CH-8962 Bergdietikon / CH | ||
| Former [1986/23] | Hotz, Klaus, Dipl.-El.-Ing. / ETH c/o SOUDRONIC AG Industriestrasse 35 Postfach 11 CH-8962 Bergdietikon / CH | ||
| Former [1983/33] | Troesch, Hans Alfred, Dr. sc. techn. Troesch Scheidegger Werner AG Siewerdtstrasse 95 CH-8050 Zürich / CH | ||
| Former [1982/33] | Steiner, Martin c/o AMMANN PATENTANWÄLTE AG BERN Schwarztorstrasse 31 CH-3001 Bern / CH | Application number, filing date | 82810039.6 | 29.01.1982 | [1982/33] | Priority number, date | US19810233251 | 10.02.1981 Original published format: US 233251 | [1982/33] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0058135 | Date: | 18.08.1982 | Language: | EN | [1982/33] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0058135 | Date: | 27.07.1983 | Language: | EN | [1983/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0058135 | Date: | 12.11.1986 | Language: | DE | [1986/46] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0058135 | Date: | 14.06.1995 | Language: | DE | [1995/24] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.05.1983 | Classification | IPC: | B23K26/00 | [1982/33] | CPC: |
B23K37/053 (EP,US);
B23K11/0873 (EP,US);
B23K26/08 (EP,US);
B23K26/244 (EP,US);
B23K26/262 (EP,US);
B23K2101/125 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1982/33] | Title | German: | Z-Führungsschienenvorrichtung und Stumpfschweissverfahren | [1982/33] | English: | Z-bar guide apparatus and method of butt welding | [1982/33] | French: | Appareil de guidage à rail en Z et méthode de soudage bout à bout | [1982/33] | Examination procedure | 11.01.1984 | Examination requested [1984/13] | 17.01.1985 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.04.1985 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.06.1985 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 04.10.1985 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.01.1986 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 07.05.1986 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.07.1986 | Fee for grant paid | 14.07.1986 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
10.08.1987
23.09.1987
ADMISSIBLE Thyssen Stahl AG Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 100 D-47166 Duisburg / DE Opponent's representative Werner, Dietrich H. Cohausz & Florack Patentanwälte Postfach 33 02 29 40435 Düsseldorf / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1987/40] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
10.08.1987
23.09.1987
ADMISSIBLE Thyssen Stahl AG Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 100 D-47166 Duisburg / DE Opponent's representative Werner, Dietrich H., Dr.-Ing. Cohausz & Florack Patentanwälte Postfach 33 02 29 D-40435 Düsseldorf / DE | 10.02.1988 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 11.07.1988 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 27.02.1989 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 29.06.1989 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 25.01.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 25.05.1990 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 20.07.1990 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M02) | 29.09.1990 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 03.05.1991 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 26.10.1994 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 26.10.1994 | Date of oral proceedings | 10.11.1994 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 13.02.1995 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 31.03.1995 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 04.07.1991 | Appeal received No. T0502/91 | 05.09.1991 | Statement of grounds filed | 26.10.1994 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the opponent was rejected | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 03.12.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.12.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.01.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | AT | 29.01.1990 | GB | 29.01.1990 | SE | 30.01.1990 | BE | 31.01.1990 | NL | 01.08.1990 | [1991/23] |
| Former [1991/18] | AT | 29.01.1990 | |
| GB | 29.01.1990 | ||
| SE | 30.01.1990 | ||
| NL | 01.08.1990 | ||
| Former [1991/17] | AT | 29.01.1990 | |
| GB | 29.01.1990 | ||
| SE | 30.01.1990 | ||
| Former [1991/11] | GB | 29.01.1990 | |
| SE | 30.01.1990 | ||
| Former [1990/43] | SE | 30.01.1990 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]FR900129 (CARNAUD & FORGES); | [Y]US3366768 (OSBORN JR HARRY B); | [Y]US3834010 (WOLFE R, et al); | [Y]FR2222171 (SCHMALBACH LUBECA [DE]); | [A]FR2304434 (OPPRECHT PAUL [CH]); | [Y]FR2338766 (SAURIN EMMANUEL [FR]); | [Y]WO7800015 (CONTINENTAL GROUP [US]); | [Y]GB2006659 (OPPRECHT PAUL); | [XE]WO8101116 (SWS INC [US]) |