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EP0169723
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| EP0169723 - Method and apparatus for treating a plurality of zones of a processing line [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent revoked Status updated on 12.01.1993 Database last updated on 03.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.04.2015 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): BE | published on 20.05.2015 [2015/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states DIVERSEY ENGINEERING (EUROPE) LIMITED 4 Finway Dallow Road Luton LU1 1TE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/05] | For all designated states Diversey Engineering (Europe) Limited 4 Finway Dallow Road Luton LU1 1TE / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Bird, Kenneth John Herbert 32 Sandringham Drive Bramcote Hills Beeston Nottinghamshire / GB | 02 /
Cross, Robert John 81 Derwent Avenue Allestree Derbyshire / GB | 03 /
Singh, Manjit 9 Moray Court Kimberley Nottinghamshire / GB | [1986/05] | Representative(s) | Charlton, Peter John, et al Elkington and Fife LLP Prospect House 8 Pembroke Road Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XR / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1991/14] | Charlton, Peter John, et al Elkington and Fife Prospect House 8 Pembroke Road Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XR / GB | ||
| Former [1986/05] | Boon, Graham Anthony Elkington and Fife Prospect House 8 Pembroke Road Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XR / GB | Application number, filing date | 85305186.0 | 22.07.1985 | [1986/05] | Priority number, date | GB19840018778 | 24.07.1984 Original published format: GB 8418778 | [1986/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0169723 | Date: | 29.01.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/05] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0169723 | Date: | 04.02.1987 | Language: | EN | [1987/06] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0169723 | Date: | 11.01.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/02] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.12.1986 | Classification | IPC: | F16N29/02, B65G45/00 | [1986/05] | CPC: |
F16N27/02 (EP,US);
B01F35/833 (EP,US);
B65G45/22 (EP,US);
Y10T137/0318 (EP,US);
Y10T137/2931 (EP,US);
Y10T137/87249 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, DE, FR, IT, NL, SE [1988/23] |
| Former [1986/05] | AT, BE, DE, FR, GB, IT, NL, SE | Title | German: | Verfahren und Anordnung zum Behandeln einer Mehrheit der Zonen einer Verfahrenslinie | [1986/05] | English: | Method and apparatus for treating a plurality of zones of a processing line | [1986/05] | French: | Procédé et dispositif pour traiter une pluralité de zones d'une ligne de production | [1986/05] | Examination procedure | 09.04.1987 | Examination requested [1987/25] | 22.03.1988 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.07.1988 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.10.1988 | Fee for grant paid | 13.10.1988 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
11.10.1989
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ADMISSIBLE ECOLAB INC. Ecolab Center 370 North Wabasha Street St. Paul MN 55102-2233 / US Opponent's representative Silverman, Warren, et al, et al Haseltine Lake & Co. Imperial House, 15-19 Kingsway London WC2B 6UD / GB | [2008/38] |
| Former [1989/49] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
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26.10.1989
ADMISSIBLE Ecolab Inc. Ecolab Center St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 / US Opponent's representative Silverman, Warren, et al, et al HASELTINE LAKE & CO. Hazlitt House 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane London WC2A 1AT / GB | 14.11.1989 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 16.05.1990 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 23.05.1990 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M06) | 28.11.1990 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 08.02.1991 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 06.10.1992 | Legal effect of revocation of patent [1993/09] | Appeal following opposition | 27.03.1991 | Appeal received No. T0263/91 | 04.12.1992 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the proprietor was rejected | 06.10.1992 | Date of oral proceedings | 19.10.1992 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.07.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.07.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | SE | 23.07.1992 | BE | 31.07.1992 | [2015/21] |
| Former [1993/19] | BE | 31.07.1989 | |
| SE | 23.07.1992 | ||
| Former [1990/26] | BE | 31.07.1989 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]GB920761 (AUTO RESEARCH CORP); | [A]US4022512 (AUTELLI OSCAR N); | [A]FR2386342 (POLITECHNIKA GDANSKA [PL]); | [A]GB2026729 (DRAEGERWERK AG); | [A]US4226325 (VANDAS EDWARD B); | [A]US4262776 (WILSON CLARK M, et al); | [A]CH626972 (ESCHLER MAX PAUL [CH]); | [A]GB2081820 (MADISON KIPP CORP); | [AD]EP0079152 (CHEMED CORP [US]) |