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EP0404580
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0404580 - Improvements relating to smoking articles [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 16.04.1999 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED Millbank, Knowle Green Staines Middlesex TW18 1DY / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/40] | For all designated states British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Millbank, Knowle Green Staines, Middlesex TW18 1DY / GB | ||
| Former [1990/52] | For all designated states BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED Millbank, Knowle Green Staines, Middlesex TW18 1DY / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Case, Paul David 18 Redhill Crescent Bassett, Southampton, Hampshire / GB | 02 /
Stephenson, Alan George 128 Hightown Road Ringwood, Hampshire / GB | [1990/52] | Representative(s) | MacLean, Kenneth John Hamson Patents Department British-American Tobacco Company Limited Technology Centre Regents Park Road Southampton S015 8TL / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/17] | MacLean, Kenneth John Hamson Patents Section British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. Technology Centre Regents Park Road Southampton, S09 1PE / GB | ||
| Former [1990/52] | MacLean, Kenneth John Hamson Patents Section British-American Tobacco Company Ltd. Technology Centre P.O. Box 90 Regents Park Road Southampton S09 7FS / GB | Application number, filing date | 90306819.5 | 21.06.1990 | [1990/52] | Priority number, date | GB19890014510 | 23.06.1989 Original published format: GB 8914510 | GB19890014509 | 23.06.1989 Original published format: GB 8914509 | [1990/52] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0404580 | Date: | 27.12.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/52] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0404580 | Date: | 10.05.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/19] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0404580 | Date: | 02.06.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 31.10.1990 | Classification | IPC: | A24D1/02, D21H17/67 | [1990/52] | CPC: |
A24D1/02 (EP,US);
D21H3/00 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1990/52] | Title | German: | Rauchartikel | [1990/52] | English: | Improvements relating to smoking articles | [1990/52] | French: | Articles à fumer | [1990/52] | Miscellaneous | EPB 1995/19: Teilanmeldung 94202799.6 eingereicht am 28/09/94 | EPB 1995/19: Divisional application 94202799.6 filed on 28/09/94 | EPB 1995/19: Demande divisionnaire 94202799.6 déposée le 28/09/94 | Examination procedure | 29.06.1990 | Examination requested [1990/52] | 10.07.1992 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 13.11.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.01.1993 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.04.1993 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.08.1993 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 04.12.1993 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.03.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M05) | 10.08.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.09.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 17.09.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.10.1994 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 10.11.1994 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.02.1995 | Fee for grant paid | 20.02.1995 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP94202799.6 / EP0636323 | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
09.02.1996
25.04.1996
ADMISSIBLE H.F. & Ph.F. Reemtsma GmbH & Co Parkstr. 51 D-22605 Hamburg / DE Opponent's representative Huber, Arnulf, et al, et al Uexküll & Stolberg Patentanwälte Beselerstrasse 4 22607 Hamburg / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/14] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
09.02.1996
25.04.1996
ADMISSIBLE H.F. & Ph.F. Reemtsma GmbH & Co Parkstr. 51 D-22605 Hamburg / DE Opponent's representative Huber, Arnulf, et al, et al Uexküll & Stolberg, Patentanwälte, Beselerstrasse 4 22607 Hamburg / DE | deleted | Deletion: Legal effect of rejection of opposition [ N /P ] | 21.02.1996 | No. 01: Notification indicating deficiencies in the notice of opposition | 26.02.1996 | No. 01: Reply to notification indicating deficiencies in the notice of opposition | 30.04.1996 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 06.09.1996 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 02.05.1997 | Date of despatch of rejection of opposition | 03.09.1998 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 03.09.1998 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 08.12.1998 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 18.03.1999 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 19.06.1997 | Appeal received No. T0680/97 | 02.09.1997 | Statement of grounds filed | 03.09.1998 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 03.09.1998 | Date of oral proceedings | 09.09.1998 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.04.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 14.05.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 18.05.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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