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EP0117523
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| EP0117523 - Reduced vacuum cryopump [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 08.01.1996 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.04.2015 | Change - lapse in a contracting state State(s) deleted from list of lapses: FR | published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states HELIX TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 266 Second Avenue Waltham Massachusetts 02254 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/36] | For all designated states HELIX TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 266 Second Avenue Waltham Massachusetts 02254 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Peterson, John F. Three Brancroft Street Lynnfield, Mass. 01940 / US | 02 /
Bartlett, Allen J. Three Briar Drive Milford, Mass. 01757 / US | [1984/36] | Representative(s) | Kraus, Walter, et al Patentanwälte Kraus, Weisert & Partner Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 80539 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/36] | Kraus, Walter, Dr., et al Patentanwälte Kraus, Weisert & Partner Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 D-80539 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 84101862.5 | 22.02.1984 | [1984/36] | Priority number, date | US19830470914 | 28.02.1983 Original published format: US 470914 | [1984/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0117523 | Date: | 05.09.1984 | Language: | EN | [1984/36] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0117523 | Date: | 15.01.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0117523 | Date: | 18.05.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/20] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0117523 | Date: | 07.02.1996 | [1996/06] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.11.1985 | Classification | IPC: | F04B37/08 | [1984/36] | CPC: |
F04B37/08 (EP,US);
C23C14/564 (EP,US);
Y10S417/901 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [1984/36] | Title | German: | Kryopumpe mit vermindertem Vakuum | [1988/20] | English: | Reduced vacuum cryopump | [1984/36] | French: | Cryopompe pour un vide réduit | [1984/36] |
| Former [1984/36] | Reduzierte Vakuum-Kryopumpe | Examination procedure | 20.05.1986 | Examination requested [1986/31] | 14.11.1986 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M05) | 24.04.1987 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.08.1987 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 20.11.1987 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.02.1988 | Fee for grant paid | 15.02.1988 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
18.02.1989
17.03.1989
ADMISSIBLE Leybold AG Bonner StraBe 498 D-5000 Köln 51 / DE Opponent's representative Leineweber, Jürgen Patentanwalt Siebachstrasse 47 50733 Köln / DE | [N/P] |
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| Opponent(s) | 01
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17.03.1989
ADMISSIBLE Leybold AG Bonner StraBe 498 D-5000 Köln 51 / DE Opponent's representative Leineweber, Jürgen, Dipl.-Phys. Aggerstrasse 24 D-50859 Köln / DE | 22.03.1989 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 04.09.1989 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 11.09.1989 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M04) | 10.01.1990 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 20.02.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 02.07.1990 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 24.10.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 04.03.1991 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 15.12.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 20.03.1995 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 02.08.1995 | Fee for printing new specification paid | 28.08.1995 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 07.09.1995 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 13.12.1995 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | Appeal following opposition | 22.01.1992 | Appeal received No. T0068/92 | 01.04.1992 | Statement of grounds filed | 20.10.1994 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 20.10.1994 | Date of oral proceedings | 31.10.1994 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.02.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.02.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.02.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Former [1992/25] | GB | 22.02.1991 | |
| FR | 31.10.1991 | ||
| Former [1992/06] | GB | 22.02.1991 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]GB1170824 (500 INC [US]); | [Y]US4148196 (FRENCH JOHN B, et al); | [Y]FR2436269 (VARIAN ASSOCIATES [US]); | [E]EP0119451 (HELIX TECH CORP [US]) |