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EP0179857
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| EP0179857 - METHANE CONVERSION [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.12.1991 Database last updated on 29.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.1991 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 19.02.1992 [1992/08] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY 515 South Flower Street, P.O. Box 2679 Los Angeles California 90071 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/19] | For all designated states ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY 515 South Flower Street Los Angeles California 90071 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
JONES, C. Andrew 24 Clearbrook Road Newtown Square, PA 19073 / US | 02 /
SOFRANKO, John, A. Box 197, Line Road, R.D. 4 Malvern, PA 19355 / US | 03 /
WITHERS, Howard, P. Valley View Apartments, Yorktown 23 Pottstown, PA 19464 / US | [1986/19] | Representative(s) | Cropp, John Anthony David, et al MATHYS & SQUIRE 100 Grays Inn Road London, WC1X 8AL / GB | [1986/19] | Application number, filing date | 85902266.7 | 11.04.1985 | [1986/19] | WO1985US00649 | Priority number, date | US19840600659 | 16.04.1984 Original published format: US 600659 | US19840600668 | 16.04.1984 Original published format: US 600668 | [1986/19] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO8504865 | Date: | 07.11.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/24] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0179857 | Date: | 07.05.1986 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 07.11.1985 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1986/19] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0179857 | Date: | 27.02.1991 | Language: | EN | [1991/09] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 07.11.1985 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.08.1986 | Classification | IPC: | C07C2/00 | [1986/19] | CPC: |
C07C2/84 (EP);
C07C2523/14 (EP);
C07C2523/18 (EP);
C07C2523/34 (EP);
C07C2527/02 (EP);
C07C2527/057 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, FR, NL [1986/19] | Title | German: | METHANUMWANDLUNG | [1986/19] | English: | METHANE CONVERSION | [1986/19] | French: | CONVERSION DU METHANE | [1986/19] | File destroyed: | 20.04.2002 | Entry into regional phase | 09.12.1985 | National basic fee paid | 09.12.1985 | Search fee paid | 09.12.1985 | Designation fee(s) paid | 09.12.1985 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 10.12.1985 | Examination requested [1986/19] | 23.09.1987 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 27.01.1988 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 28.07.1988 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.10.1988 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.04.1989 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.08.1989 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.03.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 19.07.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 08.08.1990 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.10.1990 | Fee for grant paid | 23.10.1990 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.11.1991 | No opposition filed within time limit [1992/08] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.04.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.05.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 01.03.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 02.05.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 20.12.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 01.05.1988 | 04 M06 Fee paid on 21.05.1988 | 02.05.1990 | 06 M06 Fee paid on 07.09.1990 |
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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. | Cited in | International search | GB258608 [ ] (IG FARBENINDUSTRIE AG); | US4199533 [ ] (BENSON SIDNEY W [US]); | US4205194 [ ] (MITCHELL HOWARD L III [US], et al); | US4239658 [ ] (MITCHELL HOWARD L III [US], et al); | US4443645 [ ] (JONES C ANDREW [US], et al); | US4443648 [ ] (JONES C ANDREW [US], et al); | US4444984 [ ] (JONES C ANDREW [US], et al) | [A] - Journal of Catalysis, issued 1982, G.E. KELLER and M.M. BHASIN, Synthesis of Ethylene via Oxidative Coupling of Methane, see pages 9-18. | [A] - Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society, TRELANT FANG and CHUIN-TIH YEH, Catalytic Pyrlysis of Methane, see pages 265-273. |