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EP About this file: EP0461918

EP0461918 - Improvements in separating systems [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.08.1997
Database last updated on 27.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.12.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 09.01.2008  [2008/02]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
THOMAS BROADBENT & SONS LIMITED
Queen Street South
Huddersfield
West Yorkshire HD1 3EA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/51]For all designated states
THOMAS BROADBENT & SONS LIMITED
Queen Street South
Huddersfield West Yorkshire HD1 3EA / GB
Inventor(s)01 / Grimwood, Geoffrey Luther
Shaley House
Wooldale, Holmfirth HD7 1SU / GB
[1991/51]
Representative(s)WP Thompson
8th Floor
1 Mann Island
Liverpool L3 1BP / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/51]W.P. Thompson & Co.
Coopers Building, Church Street
Liverpool L1 3AB / GB
Application number, filing date91305410.214.06.1991
[1991/51]
Priority number, dateGB1990001337115.06.1990         Original published format: GB 9013371
[1991/51]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0461918
Date:18.12.1991
Language:EN
[1991/51]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0461918
Date:16.10.1996
Language:EN
[1996/42]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP01.10.1991
ClassificationIPC:B04B1/20, B04B3/04
[1991/51]
CPC:
B04B3/04 (EP,US); B04B1/20 (EP,US); B04B2001/2041 (EP,US);
B04B2001/2066 (EP)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   SE [1991/51]
TitleGerman:Trennungssysteme[1991/51]
English:Improvements in separating systems[1991/51]
French:Systèmes séparateurs[1991/51]
Examination procedure04.05.1992Examination requested  [1992/27]
18.08.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
29.10.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
26.01.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.06.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
06.10.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
11.04.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.11.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
27.03.1996Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
11.04.1996Communication of intention to grant the patent
08.07.1996Fee for grant paid
08.07.1996Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)17.07.1997No opposition filed within time limit [1997/41]
Fees paidRenewal fee
14.06.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
11.06.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
01.05.1995Renewal fee patent year 05
10.06.1996Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT16.10.1996
[2008/02]
Former [1999/42]IT16.10.1996
Documents cited:Search[X]SU179245  ;
 [X]JP1258755  ;
 [X]US4209128  (LYONS SANFORD C [US]);
 [A]US2743864  (LYONS SANFORD C);
 [A]DE2057555  (BUSCH WERNER)
 [X]  - soviet inventions illustrated section 1 chemical, october 1966 derwent publications ltd., london gb. & su-a-179245(nikolenko) 3 february 1966, & SU179245 A 00000000
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 14, no. 17 (C-675)(3960) January 16, 1990 & JP-A-1 258 755 (MITSUBISHI K.K. ) October 16, 1989, & JP1258755 A 00000000
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