EP0598321 - Adsorption Process with mixed repressurization and purge/equalization [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.04.2007 Database last updated on 20.12.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 20.04.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): NL | published on 23.05.2007 [2007/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC. P.O. Box 538 Allentown, PA 18195-1501 / US | [1994/21] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kumar, Ravi 991 N. Treeline Drive Allentown, PA 18103 / US | 02 /
Naheiri, Tarik 2775 Kuter Road Bath, PA 18014 / US | 03 /
Watson, Charles Franklin 5519 Willow Way Orefield, PA 18069 / US | [1994/21] | Representative(s) | Marx, Lothar Schwabe - Sandmair - Marx Patentanwälte Postfach 86 02 45 81629 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1994/21] | Marx, Lothar, Dr. Patentanwälte Schwabe, Sandmair, Marx Stuntzstrasse 16 D-81677 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 93118220.8 | 10.11.1993 | [1994/21] | Priority number, date | US19920976878 | 16.11.1992 Original published format: US 976878 | US19930037070 | 25.03.1993 Original published format: US 37070 | [1994/21] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0598321 | Date: | 25.05.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/21] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0598321 | Date: | 31.05.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 03.03.1994 | Classification | IPC: | C01B13/02, B01D53/04 | [1994/21] | CPC: |
B01D53/0476 (EP);
C01B13/0259 (EP);
B01D2256/12 (EP);
B01D2259/40064 (EP);
B01D2259/40066 (EP);
B01D2259/40079 (EP);
B01D2259/40081 (EP);
B01D2259/402 (EP);
B01D2259/403 (EP);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL, SE [1994/21] | Title | German: | Adsorptionsverfahren mit gemischten Druckaufbau und Spülung/Druckausgleich | [1994/21] | English: | Adsorption Process with mixed repressurization and purge/equalization | [1994/21] | French: | Procédé d'adsorption avec répressurisation mixte et purge/égalisation de pression | [1994/21] | Examination procedure | 13.05.1994 | Examination requested [1994/28] | 08.01.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 08.05.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 16.12.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 22.04.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.12.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.06.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.02.2001 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination {1} | 14.05.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.09.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.10.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.01.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 13.01.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Appeal following examination | 30.03.2001 | Appeal received No. T0701/01 | 30.05.2001 | Statement of grounds filed | 27.06.2003 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [2003/26] | 09.10.2003 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [2003/41] | 29.10.2003 | Result of appeal procedure: continuation of examination procedure | Opposition(s) | 01.03.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/19] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.11.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.11.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 08.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 10.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 07.11.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 07.11.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 07.11.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 08.11.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 07.11.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 13 |
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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 | NL | 31.05.2006 | SE | 31.08.2006 | [2007/21] |
Former [2006/49] | SE | 31.08.2006 | Documents cited: | Search | [DY]US4650501 (UNION CARBIDE) [DY] 1-45 * column W *; | [Y]EP0398339 (AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS) [Y] 1-45 * the whole document *; | [PA]US5174796 (UOP) [PA] 1-45 * column W *; | [A]EP0194334 (UNION CARBIDE) [A] 1-45 * the whole document *; | [A]GB2155805 (OSAKA SANSO KOGYO) [A] 1-45 * the whole document *; | [A]US4077780 (UNION CARBIDE) [A] 1-45 * column W * |