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EP About this file: EP0397831

EP0397831 - TREATMENT OF OBESITY [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  16.07.1994
Database last updated on 02.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip26.04.2002Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 12.06.2002  [2002/24]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
The Boots Company PLC
1 Thane Road West
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG2 3AA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/11]For all designated states
The Boots Company PLC
1 Thane Road West
Nottingham Nottinghamshire NG2 3AA / GB
Former [1990/47]For all designated states
THE BOOTS COMPANY PLC
1 Thane Road West
Nottingham NG2 3AA / GB
Inventor(s)01 / SCHEINBAUM, Monte, Lee
66 Colony Bend
Shreveport, LA 71115 / US
[1990/47]
Representative(s)Thacker, Michael Anthony, et al
THE BOOTS COMPANY PLC Group Patents Department 10th Floor, Newland House 49 Mount Street
Nottingham NG2 3AA / GB
[1990/47]
Application number, filing date89912801.121.11.1989
[1990/47]
WO1989GB01383
Priority number, dateUS1988027724029.11.1988         Original published format: US 277240
[1990/47]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9006110
Date:14.06.1990
Language:EN
[1990/14]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0397831
Date:22.11.1990
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 14.06.1990 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1990/47]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0397831
Date:15.09.1993
Language:EN
[1993/37]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP14.06.1990
ClassificationIPC:A61K31/135
[1990/47]
CPC:
A61K31/135 (EP,KR,US); A61P3/04 (EP)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   LU,   NL,   SE [1990/47]
TitleGerman:BEHANDLUNG VON OBESITAS[1990/47]
English:TREATMENT OF OBESITY[1990/47]
French:TRAITEMENT DE L'OBESITE[1990/47]
Entry into regional phase02.07.1990National basic fee paid 
02.07.1990Designation fee(s) paid 
02.07.1990Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure02.07.1990Examination requested  [1990/47]
05.07.1991Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
07.01.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
21.04.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
27.10.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
24.02.1993Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
17.03.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
11.05.1993Fee for grant paid
11.05.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)16.06.1994No opposition filed within time limit [1994/36]
Fees paidRenewal fee
11.11.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
09.10.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipES15.09.1993
[2002/24]
Cited inInternational searchWO8806444  [ ] (BOOTS CO PLC [GB])
    [ ] - Lehrbuch der Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, ed. by Hermann Bader, Ed. Medizin Weinheim (DE) page 101
    [ ] - Martindale The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 28th Edition, ed. by James E.F. Reynolds The Pharmaceutical Press, 1982 London (GB) page 65
Examination   - Burger's Medicinal Chemistry, 4th ed., Part III, 1981, p. 226-228
    - Goodman and Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 8th ed., 1990, chapter 10, p. 187-192
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