| EP0552013 - Thermally bondable fiber for high strength non-woven fabrics [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.02.2000 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): NL | published on 19.02.2003 [2003/08] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states HERCULES INCORPORATED Hercules Plaza Wilmington Delaware 19894-0001 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/29] | For all designated states HERCULES INCORPORATED Hercules Plaza Wilmington Delaware 19894-0001 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Gupta, Rakesh K. 962 Sundew Drive Conyers, Georgia 30208 / US | 02 /
Mallory, James E. 3211 Spring Way Conyers, Georgia 30208 / US | 03 /
Takeuchi, Kunihiko 580 Clubland Circle Conyers, Georgia 30208 / US | [1993/29] | Representative(s) | De Minvielle-Devaux, Ian Benedict Peter, et al CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43, Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | [1993/29] | Application number, filing date | 93300171.1 | 12.01.1993 | [1993/29] | Priority number, date | US19920818772 | 13.01.1992 Original published format: US 818772 | US19920943190 | 11.09.1992 Original published format: US 943190 | [1993/29] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0552013 | Date: | 21.07.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/29] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0552013 | Date: | 08.12.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0552013 | Date: | 07.04.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/14] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.10.1993 | Classification | IPC: | D01F6/06, D04H1/54, C08L23/12 | [1993/29] | CPC: |
D01F6/46 (EP,US);
A61L15/24 (EP,US);
C08L23/10 (EP,US);
C08L23/12 (EP,US);
D04H1/4291 (EP,US);
D04H1/43918 (EP,US);
D04H1/54 (EP,US);
D04H1/56 (EP,US);
D04H3/16 (EP,US);
C08L2205/02 (EP,US);
Y10S525/935 (EP,US);
Y10T428/2929 (EP,US);
Y10T428/2931 (EP,US);
Y10T442/3163 (EP,US);
Y10T442/637 (EP,US);
Y10T442/681 (EP,US)
(-)
| C-Set: |
A61L15/24, C08L23/12 (US,EP);
C08L23/10, C08L2666/04 (EP,US);
C08L23/12, C08L2666/04 (US,EP)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1993/29] | Title | German: | Wärmeverbindbare Fasern für wiederstandsfähige Vliesstoffe | [1993/29] | English: | Thermally bondable fiber for high strength non-woven fabrics | [1993/29] | French: | Fibre thermoliable pour tissus non-tissés à ténacité élevée | [1993/29] | Examination procedure | 26.05.1994 | Examination requested [1994/30] | 29.01.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 07.08.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.08.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 03.03.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.05.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 28.09.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 29.12.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 29.12.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.01.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/13] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.01.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.01.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 08.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 25.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | 07.04.1999 | BE | 07.04.1999 | CH | 07.04.1999 | LI | 07.04.1999 | NL | 07.04.1999 | [2003/08] |
| Former [2000/52] | AT | 07.04.1999 | |
| BE | 07.04.1999 | ||
| CH | 07.04.1999 | ||
| LI | 07.04.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/50] | AT | 07.04.1999 | |
| BE | 07.04.1999 | ||
| CH | 12.07.1999 | ||
| LI | 12.07.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/24] | AT | 07.04.1999 | |
| BE | 07.04.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/23] | BE | 07.04.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [A] JP2041412 | [A] DATABASE WPI Section Ch, Week 9039, Derwent Publications Ltd., London, GB; Class A, AN 90-293205 & JP-A-2 041 412 (UBE INDUSTRIES KK) 9 February 1990 [A] |