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EP0335560 - Controlled release pharmaceutical preparation and method for producing the same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusPatent maintained as amended
Status updated on  07.12.2001
Database last updated on 03.04.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip30.10.2009Change - representativepublished on 02.12.2009  [2009/49]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
No. 21 Dosho-machi 3-chome Higashi-ku Osaka-shi
Osaka-fu / JP
[N/P]
Former [1989/40]For all designated states
Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
No. 21 Dosho-machi 3-chome Higashi-ku
Osaka-shi Osaka-fu / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Samejima, Masayoshi
15-20, Aoshinke 5-chome
Mino-shi Osaka-fu / JP
02 / Noda, Kazuo
24-12, Nakayamasakuradai 2-chome
Takarazuka-shi Hyogo-ken / JP
03 / Hirakawa, Yoshiyuki
7, Shinsenri Higashi-machi 3-chome
Toyonaka-shi Osaka-fu / JP
04 / Yoshino, Hiroyuki
8-A9-101, Yamadanishi 2-chome
Suita-shi Osaka-fu / JP
[1989/40]
Representative(s)Ackroyd, Robert, et al
WP Thompson
138 Fetter Lane
London EC4A 1BT / GB
[N/P]
Former [2009/49]Ackroyd, Robert, et al
W.P. Thompson & Co. Eastcheap House Central Approach Letchworth
Hertfordshire SG6 3DS / GB
Former [1994/31]Ackroyd, Robert, et al
W.P. THOMPSON & CO. Eastcheap House Central Approach
Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 3DS / GB
Former [1989/40]Taylor, Phillip Kenneth
W.P. THOMPSON & CO. Coopers Building Church Street
Liverpool L1 3AB / GB
Application number, filing date89302767.221.03.1989
[1989/40]
Priority number, dateJP1988008060431.03.1988         Original published format: JP 8060488
[1989/40]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0335560
Date:04.10.1989
Language:EN
[1989/40]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0335560
Date:27.12.1990
Language:EN
[1990/52]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0335560
Date:28.07.1993
Language:EN
[1993/30]
Type: B2 New European patent specification 
No.:EP0335560
Date:23.01.2002
Language:EN
[2002/04]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP07.11.1990
ClassificationIPC:A61K9/32, A61K9/36, A61K9/52
[1989/40]
CPC:
A61K9/5078 (EP,US); A61K9/16 (KR); A61K9/2866 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   ES,   GB,   GR,   IT,   LI,   LU,   NL,   SE [1989/40]
TitleGerman:Arzneizubereitung mit gesteuerter Wirkstofffreisetzung und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung[1989/40]
English:Controlled release pharmaceutical preparation and method for producing the same[1989/40]
French:Composition pharmaceutique à libération contrôlée et procédé pour sa préparation[1989/40]
Examination procedure11.04.1991Examination requested  [1991/23]
17.02.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
25.08.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
16.11.1992Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
22.01.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
01.03.1993Fee for grant paid
01.03.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)Opponent(s)01  28.04.1994  10.05.1994  ADMISSIBLE
Orion-yhtymä Oy
P.O. Box 65
Fi-02101 Espoo / FI
Opponent's representative
Sexton, Jane Helen
J A Kemp
14 South Square
Gray's Inn
London WC1R 5JJ / GB
 02  28.04.1994  10.07.1997  WITHDRAWN
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
D-55216 Ingelheim / DE
 [N/P]
Former [1994/25]
Opponent(s)01  28.04.1994  10.05.1994  ADMISSIBLE
Orion-yhtymä Oy
P.O. Box 65
Fi-02101 Espoo / FI
Opponent's representative
Sexton, Jane Helen
J.A. KEMP & CO. 14 South Square Gray's Inn
London WC1R 5LX / GB
 02  28.04.1994  26.05.1994  ADMISSIBLE
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
D-55216 Ingelheim / DE
31.05.1994Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition
08.02.1995Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition
15.02.1995Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M06)
24.08.1995Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor
30.04.1996Date of oral proceedings
31.05.1996Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings
31.05.1996Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked
18.08.1999Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M02)
18.10.1999Reply to a communication from the opposition division
18.04.2000Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04)
15.08.2000Reply to a communication from the opposition division
02.05.2001Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition
12.05.2001Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition
31.08.2001Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended
21.11.2001Fee for printing new specification paid
Appeal following opposition12.06.1997Appeal received No.  T0674/96
12.08.1997Statement of grounds filed
29.04.1999Result of appeal procedure: continuation of opposition procedure
23.07.1996Appeal received No.  T0674/96
09.10.1996Statement of grounds filed
29.04.1999Result of appeal procedure: continuation of opposition procedure
29.04.1999Date of oral proceedings
05.05.1999Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched
Fees paidRenewal fee
21.12.1990Renewal fee patent year 03
26.03.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
09.03.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[X]US4610870  (JAIN NEMICHAND B [US], et al)
ExaminationUS4610870
OppositionDE4148802
 CH573749
 GB2025227
 US4361546
 EP0080341
 JPS5989622
 US4578264
 EP0072021
 US5068112
 US5254347
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