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EP0187179 - Valve body on which is mounted a displacement-type water heater [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Patent revoked Status updated on 18.03.1993 Database last updated on 03.04.2025
Most recent event Tooltip	17.04.2015	Change - lapse in a contracting state State(s) deleted from list of lapses: CH, LI	published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Firma Meloh-Armaturen GmbH Im Mühlental 17 D-5860 Iserlohn 7 / DE
	[1986/29]
Inventor(s)	01 / Meloh, Hansgert Oestricher Strasse 146 D-5860 Iserlohn 7 / DE
	02 / Ruppel, Horst-Friedrich Rauhe Hardt 4 D-5860 Iserlohn 7 / DE
	03 / Ruppel, Manfred Rauhe Hardt 8 D-5860 Iserlohn 7 / DE
	[1986/29]
Representative(s)	Dörner, Lothar Patentanwälte Dörner & Kötter PartG mbB Körnerstrasse 27 58095 Hagen / DE
	[N/P]
Former [1986/29]	Dörner, Lothar, Dipl.-Ing. Stresemannstrasse 15 D-58095 Hagen / DE
Application number, filing date	85100197.4	10.01.1985
	[1986/29]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0187179
	Date:	16.07.1986
	Language:	DE
	[1986/29]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0187179
	Date:	27.07.1988
	Language:	DE
	[1988/30]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	08.10.1985
Classification	IPC:	F16K11/00	[1986/29]
	CPC:	F16K19/003 (EP)
Designated contracting states	BE, CH, DE, FR, IT, LI, LU, NL [1986/29]
Title	German:	Armatur für über der Armatur montierte überlauf-Heisswassergeräte	[1986/29]
	English:	Valve body on which is mounted a displacement-type water heater	[1986/29]
	French:	Batterie sur laquelle est monté un chauffe-eau à déplacement	[1986/29]
Examination procedure	14.03.1986	Examination requested [1986/29]
	13.07.1987	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	26.10.1987	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	18.12.1987	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	29.01.1988	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	11.04.1988	Fee for grant paid
	11.04.1988	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	Opponent(s)	01 15.04.1989 10.05.1989 ADMISSIBLE Joh. Vaillant GmbH u. Co Berghauser Str. 40 Postfach 10 10 61 D-42810 Remscheid / DE
		03 21.04.1989 13.06.1989 ADMISSIBLE Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co.KG D-37601 Holzminden / DE
		[N/P]
	Former [2000/04]
	Opponent(s)	01 15.04.1989 10.05.1989 ADMISSIBLE Joh. Vaillant GmbH u. Co Berghauser Str. 40 Postfach 10 10 61 D-42810 Remscheid / DE
		03 21.04.1989 13.06.1989 ADMISSIBLE Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co.KG D-37601 Holzminden / DE
	Former [1992/51]
	Opponent(s)	01 15.04.1989 10.05.1989 ADMISSIBLE Joh. Vaillant GmbH u. Co Berghauser Str. 40 Postfach 10 10 61 D-42810 Remscheid / DE
		03 21.04.1989 13.06.1989 ADMISSIBLE Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co.KG D-37601 Holzminden / DE
	Former [1989/25]
	Opponent(s)	01 15.04.1989 ADMISSIBLE Joh. Vaillant GmbH u. Co Berghauser Str. 40 Postfach 10 10 61 D-42810 Remscheid / DE
		02 19.04.1989 Knebel & Röttger GmbH & Co. Giesestrasse 30 D-5860 Iserlohn / DE Opponent's representative Patentanwälte Dipl.-Ing. Conrad Köchling Dipl.-Ing. Conrad-Joachim Köchling Fleyer Strasse 135 D-58097 Hagen / DE
		03 21.04.1989 ADMISSIBLE Stiebel Eltron GmbH & Co.KG D-37601 Holzminden / DE
	15.06.1989	Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition
	12.10.1989	Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition
	04.12.1989	Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04)
	27.02.1990	Reply to a communication from the opposition division
	28.09.1990	Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition
	04.12.1992	Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked
	14.12.1992	Legal effect of revocation of patent [1993/18]
Appeal following opposition	08.11.1990	Appeal received No. T0862/90
	23.01.1991	Statement of grounds filed
	30.06.1992	Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.01.1987	Renewal fee patent year 03
	21.01.1988	Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	deleted
	[2015/21]
Former [1993/27]	CH	27.07.1988
	LI	27.07.1988
Documents cited:	Search	[A]GB535215 (SAMUEL JONES AND COMPANY ENGIN, et al);
		[A]DE1175408 (SEIDL KARL);
		[A]DE1285269 (KARL SEIDL AMATUREN UND METALL);
		[A]DE1679757 (SEIDL KARL);
		[A]DE2107972
	Opposition	DE1714090U
		DE1151767
		DE1679757
		DE2107972
		DE90712
		DD10914
		DE646273
		US2439712
		DE1714019U
		DE1221420
		DE2364913

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