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EP0480899
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0480899 - Live load packing system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 26.05.2000 Database last updated on 16.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.06.2013 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 31.07.2013 [2013/31] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 8000 Maryland Avenue Clayton Missouri 63105 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1992/16] | For all designated states FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 8000 Maryland Avenue Clayton Missouri 63105 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Wears, William Everett 2691 Underwood Avenue Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 / US | 02 /
Wood, Charles Willard 2564 Smith Avenue Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 / US | [1992/16] | Representative(s) | Meissner Bolte Partnerschaft mbB Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte Postfach 86 06 24 81633 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/33] | MEISSNER, BOLTE & PARTNER Patentanwälte Postfach 86 06 24 D-81633 München / DE | ||
| Former [1992/16] | Bosch, Henry Monsanto Services International S.A. Patent Department Avenue de Tervuren 270/272 Letter Box No. 21 B-1150 Brussels / BE | Application number, filing date | 91870155.8 | 08.10.1991 | [1992/16] | Priority number, date | US19900594843 | 09.10.1990 Original published format: US 594843 | [1992/16] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0480899 | Date: | 15.04.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/16] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0480899 | Date: | 29.04.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/18] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0480899 | Date: | 17.04.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/16] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0480899 | Date: | 12.07.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/28] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.03.1992 | Classification | IPC: | F16K41/02, F16J15/18 | [1992/16] | CPC: |
F16K41/02 (EP,US);
F16J15/26 (KR);
F16J15/186 (EP,US);
Y10T137/8225 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [1992/16] | Title | German: | Gefederte Packungsstopfbuchse | [1992/16] | English: | Live load packing system | [1992/16] | French: | Presse-étoupe à autoserrage | [1992/16] | Examination procedure | 25.09.1992 | Examination requested [1992/47] | 17.03.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 27.07.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.12.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.05.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 16.06.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 19.10.1995 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.01.1996 | Fee for grant paid | 18.01.1996 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
17.01.1997
WITHDRAWN FOXBORO Eckardt GmbH Pragstrasse 82 70376 Stuttgart / DE Opponent's representative Wilhelm, Peter Patentanwälte Ruff, Wilhelm Beier, Dauster & Partner Postfach 10 40 36 70035 Stuttgart / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/11] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
17.01.1997
WITHDRAWN FOXBORO Eckardt GmbH Pragstrasse 82 70376 Stuttgart / DE Opponent's representative Wilhelm, Peter Patentanwälte Ruff, Wilhelm, Beier, Dauster & Partner Postfach 10 40 36 70035 Stuttgart / DE | 19.02.1997 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 28.10.1997 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 14.05.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 24.09.1998 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 19.10.1998 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M02) | 09.12.1998 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 17.09.1999 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 17.09.1999 | Date of oral proceedings | 05.11.1999 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 05.11.1999 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 01.03.2000 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 08.05.2000 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.10.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 08.10.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | AT | 08.10.1997 | BE | 31.10.1997 | NL | 01.05.1998 | [2013/31] |
| Former [1998/49] | AT | 08.10.1997 | |
| BE | 31.10.1997 | ||
| NL | 01.05.1998 | ||
| Former [1998/43] | AT | 08.10.1997 | |
| NL | 01.05.1998 | ||
| Former [1998/40] | AT | 08.10.1997 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE912883 (VER ARMATUREN GMBH); | [A]GB1294341 (EXXON RESEARCH ENGINEERING CO [US]); | [X]DE3012024 (ECKARDT AG [DE]); | [X]DE3937316 | Opposition | DE3012024 | DE3808912 | - DIN 1494 Teil 1 Juni 1983 and Teil 4 Dezember 1983 |