EP0163417 - Bleach products [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 02.08.1996 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Unilever N.V. Weena 455 3013 AL Rotterdam / NL | [N/P] |
Former [1993/09] | For all designated states UNILEVER N.V. Weena 455 NL-3013 AL Rotterdam / NL | ||
Former [1985/49] | For all designated states UNILEVER N.V. Weena 455 NL-3013 AL Rotterdam / NL | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tai, Ho Tan 5 rue G. Tell F-59000 Lille / FR | [1985/49] | Representative(s) | Fransella, Mary Evelyn, et al Unilever PLC Unilever Intellectual Property Group Colworth House Sharnbrook Bedford, MK44 1LQ / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1996/29] | Fransella, Mary Evelyn, et al Unilever PLC Patent Division Colworth House Sharnbrook Bedford MK44 1LQ / GB | ||
Former [1993/03] | Ford, Michael Frederick, et al MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | ||
Former [1991/22] | Fransella, Mary Evelyn Unilever PLC Patent Division Colworth House Sharnbrook Bedford MK44 1LQ / GB | ||
Former [1988/22] | Ford, Michael Frederick MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | ||
Former [1985/49] | Fransella, Mary Evelyn Unilever PLC Patent Division Colworth House Sharnbrook Bedford MK44 1LQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 85302917.1 | 25.04.1985 | [1985/49] | Priority number, date | GB19840010826 | 27.04.1984 Original published format: GB 8410826 | [1985/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0163417 | Date: | 04.12.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0163417 | Date: | 11.09.1991 | Language: | EN | [1991/37] | Type: | B1 RE Reissue of patent specification | No.: | EP0163417 | Date: | 16.10.1991 | [1991/49] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0163417 | Date: | 18.09.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/38] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.09.1985 | Classification | IPC: | C11D3/39, C11D17/04 | [1985/49] | CPC: |
C11D3/3907 (EP,US);
C11D17/046 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, IT, LI, NL, SE [1991/44] |
Former [1985/49] | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, IT, LI, NL, SE | Title | German: | Bleichmittelprodukte | [1985/49] | English: | Bleach products | [1985/49] | French: | Produits de blanchiment | [1985/49] | Examination procedure | 22.11.1985 | Examination requested [1986/06] | 14.08.1986 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.12.1986 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.04.1987 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 03.08.1987 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.11.1987 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination {1} | 16.11.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 08.03.1991 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.05.1991 | Fee for grant paid | 06.05.1991 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Appeal following examination | 29.01.1988 | Appeal received No. T0260/88 | 29.01.1988 | Statement of grounds filed | 16.11.1990 | Result of appeal procedure: remittal for grant | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
13.12.1991
05.02.1992
ADMISSIBLE Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien TFP / Patentabteilung D-40191 Düsseldorf / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1992/09] | |||
Opponent(s) | 01
13.12.1991
05.02.1992
ADMISSIBLE Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien TFP / Patentabteilung D-40191 Düsseldorf / DE | deleted | Deletion: Legal effect of rejection of opposition [ N /P ] | 17.07.1992 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 25.01.1993 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 21.10.1993 | Date of despatch of rejection of opposition | 10.01.1996 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 10.01.1996 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 25.04.1996 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 24.06.1996 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 14.12.1993 | Appeal received No. T1052/93 | 25.02.1994 | Statement of grounds filed | 10.01.1996 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 10.01.1996 | Date of oral proceedings | 17.01.1996 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.04.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.04.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 20.04.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 23.04.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 08.12.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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LI | 11.09.1991 | ||
SE | 26.04.1996 | ||
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LI | 11.09.1991 | ||
Former [1992/36] | AT | 11.09.1991 | |
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Former [1992/29] | AT | 11.09.1991 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE2657042 (UNILEVER NV); | [AD]EP0018678 (UNILEVER NV [NL], et al); | [X]EP0096566 (PROCTER & GAMBLE [US]); | [A]EP0106634 (PROCTER & GAMBLE [US]) |