EP0595507 - Needle stopper and needle removal device [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.11.1999 Database last updated on 26.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 09.05.2002 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.06.2002 [2002/26] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Becton Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-1880 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1999/01] | For all designated states Becton, Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880 / US | ||
Former [1994/18] | For all designated states Becton Dickinson and Company One Becton Drive Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417-1880 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Benson, Carl L. 107 Harding Road Wyckoff, New Jersey 07481 / US | 02 /
Kosinski, Anthony J. 79 Princeton Drive Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 / US | [1994/18] | Representative(s) | Ruffles, Graham Keith, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 62-68 Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1LA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1994/18] | Ruffles, Graham Keith, et al MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 93308233.1 | 15.10.1993 | [1994/18] | Priority number, date | US19920969496 | 30.10.1992 Original published format: US 969496 | [1994/18] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0595507 | Date: | 04.05.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/18] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0595507 | Date: | 07.01.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/01] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.02.1994 | Classification | IPC: | A61M5/32 | [1994/18] | CPC: |
A61M5/3213 (EP,US);
A61M2005/3109 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1994/18] | Title | German: | Nadelstopfen und Vorrichtung zum Entfernen der Nadel | [1994/18] | English: | Needle stopper and needle removal device | [1994/18] | French: | Protecteur d'aiguille et dispostif d'enlèvement de l'aiguille | [1994/18] | Examination procedure | 27.10.1994 | Examination requested [1994/51] | 10.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 18.11.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.06.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 11.11.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.05.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 13.07.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.09.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 15.09.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.10.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.10.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.10.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | ES | 07.01.1999 | [2002/26] | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]US3876067 (SCHWARZ HELMUT) [Y] 1-9 * column 1, line 57 - column 2, line 60; figures 2-4 *; | [Y]FR2617719 (CHRISTOPHE DABRIOU MARLYNE [FR]) [Y] 1-9 * figures 1-4; claims 1,2 *; | [A]EP0315306 (JENSEN HANS SKOVGARD) [A] 1,3,4,6-9 * column 5, line 51 - column 6, line 13 * * column 6, line 43 - line 47; figures 1,2,4,9-11 *; | [A]US4380292 (CRAMER KATHLEEN J [US]) [A] 1,2 * column 4, line 26 - line 58; figure 1 * | Examination | US4248246 |