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EP0612201
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| EP0612201 - Improved heating apparatus for induction ladle and vacuum furnaces [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.11.2000 Database last updated on 26.06.2024 | 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 INDUCTOTHERM CORP. 10 Indel Avenue Rancocas New Jersey 08073 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/34] | For all designated states INDUCTOTHERM CORP. 10 Indel Avenue Rancocas New Jersey 08073 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Heine, Hans G. 1616 Wilmington Island Road Savannah, Georgia 31410 / US | 02 /
Cignetti, Nicholas P. 4836 Pond Drive North Canton, Ohio 44720 / US | [1994/34] | Representative(s) | WP Thompson 138 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/34] | W.P. THOMPSON & CO. Eastcheap House Central Approach Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 3DS / GB | Application number, filing date | 93306969.2 | 03.09.1993 | [1994/34] | Priority number, date | US19930019921 | 19.02.1993 Original published format: US 19921 | [1994/34] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0612201 | Date: | 24.08.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/34] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0612201 | Date: | 21.09.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/38] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0612201 | Date: | 12.01.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/02] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.08.1994 | Classification | IPC: | H05B6/24, H05B6/26, B22D41/015 | [1994/38] | CPC: |
H05B6/102 (EP,US);
B22D41/015 (EP,US);
H05B6/20 (EP,US);
H05B6/24 (EP,US);
H05B6/36 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1994/34] | H05B6/24, H05B6/26 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1994/34] | Title | German: | Verbesserte Heizvorrichtung für Induktionsgefäss und Vakuumöfen | [1994/34] | English: | Improved heating apparatus for induction ladle and vacuum furnaces | [1994/34] | French: | Dispositif de chauffage améliorée pour poche à induction et fours sous vide | [1994/34] | Examination procedure | 03.11.1994 | Examination requested [1994/52] | 22.10.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 08.03.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.06.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M07) | 14.01.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.03.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 16.07.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.07.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 22.07.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 13.10.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 06.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.09.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 08.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 04.09.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 09.08.1999 | 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 | CH | 12.01.2000 | LI | 12.01.2000 | NL | 12.01.2000 | [2003/08] |
| Former [2000/52] | CH | 12.01.2000 | |
| LI | 12.01.2000 | ||
| Former [2000/50] | CH | 17.04.2000 | |
| LI | 17.04.2000 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPS5653868 ; | [A]US2929906 (CONNELLY DANIEL S); | [A]DE2127333 (CREUSOT LOIRE) [A] 1 * claim 1 *; | [A]FR2368542 (SIDERURGIE FSE INST RECH [FR]); | [X]EP0053070 (SIDERURGIE FSE INST RECH [FR]) [X] 1 * page 4, line 25 - line 28; claim 1 *; | [A]EP0152849 (ASEA AB [SE]); | [A]EP0232846 (ASEA AB [SE]) | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19810721), vol. 5, no. 112, Database accession no. (M - 79)<784>, & JP56053868 A 19810513 (FUJI DENKI SEIZO K.K.) [A] 1 * abstract * | by applicant | US2929906 | FR2368542 | EP0053070 | EP0152849 |