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EP0688243
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0688243 - PRETREATMENT OF PALLADIUM-GOLD CATALYSTS USEFUL IN VINYL ACETATE SYNTHESIS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent revoked Status updated on 20.10.2006 Database last updated on 11.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 20.07.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 22.08.2007 [2007/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states MILLENNIUM PETROCHEMICALS, INC. 11500 Northlake Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/11] | For all designated states MILLENIUM PETROCHEMICALS, INC. 11500 Northlake Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45249 / US | ||
| Former [1995/52] | For all designated states QUANTUM CHEMICAL CORPORATION 11500 Northlake Drive Cincinnati, OH 45249 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SMITH, David, W. 2198 Candlemaker Drive Cincinnati, OH 45244 / US | 02 /
HANES, Ronnie, M. 6207 Price Road Loveland, OH 45140 / US | 03 /
SCHEBEN, John, A. 107 Locust Street Erlanger, KY 41018 / US | 04 /
AUGUSTINE, Steve, M. 7962 Autumnwind Cincinnati, OH 45249 / US | [1995/52] | Representative(s) | Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstrasse 4 80802 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/52] | Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Maximilianstrasse 58 D-80538 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 93909144.3 | 15.03.1993 | [1995/52] | WO1993US02648 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9421374 | Date: | 29.09.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/22] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0688243 | Date: | 27.12.1995 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 29.09.1994 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1995/52] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0688243 | Date: | 08.07.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/28] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 29.09.1994 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 02.02.1996 | Classification | IPC: | B01J23/52, B01J23/44, C07C67/055 | [1996/11] | CPC: |
B01J37/12 (EP,KR,US);
B01J23/52 (EP,KR,US);
C07C67/055 (EP,KR,US)
| C-Set: |
C07C67/055, C07C69/01 (EP,US);
C07C67/055, C07C69/15 (US,EP) |
| Former IPC [1995/52] | B01J23/52, B01J23/44 | Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1995/52] | Title | German: | VORBEHANDLUNG EINES IN DER VINYLAZETAT-SYNTHESE NÜTZLICHEN PALLADIUM-GOLDKATALYSATORS | [1995/52] | English: | PRETREATMENT OF PALLADIUM-GOLD CATALYSTS USEFUL IN VINYL ACETATE SYNTHESIS | [1995/52] | French: | PRETRAITEMENT DE CATALYSEURS DE PALLADIUM-OR UTILES DANS LA SYNTHESE DE L'ACETATE DE VINYLE | [1995/52] | Entry into regional phase | 01.09.1995 | National basic fee paid | 01.09.1995 | Search fee paid | 01.09.1995 | Designation fee(s) paid | 01.09.1995 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 12.10.1994 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 01.09.1995 | Examination requested [1995/52] | 23.10.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 28.02.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.08.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.01.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.03.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 25.03.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
30.03.1999
09.04.1999
ADMISSIBLE Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbH Werk Ruhrchemie Patentreferat Postfach 14 02 37 46147 Oberhausen / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/32] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
30.03.1999
09.04.1999
ADMISSIBLE Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbH Werk Ruhrchemie Patentreferat Postfach 13 01 60 46128 Oberhausen / DE | ||
| Former [2000/31] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
30.03.1999
09.04.1999
ADMISSIBLE Celanese Chemicals Europe GmbH Lurgiallee 14 60439 Frankfurt am Main / DE | ||
| Former [1999/21] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
30.03.1999
Celanese GmbH, Werk Ruhrchemie, Patentreferat Postfach 13 01 60 46128 Oberhausen / DE | 06.05.1999 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 17.01.2000 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 19.10.2000 | Date of oral proceedings | 29.06.2001 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 29.06.2001 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 25.07.2006 | Legal effect of revocation of patent [2006/47] | Appeal following opposition | 05.09.2001 | Appeal received No. T0990/01 | 29.10.2001 | Statement of grounds filed | 25.07.2006 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the proprietor was rejected | 25.07.2006 | Date of oral proceedings | 27.07.2006 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 08.03.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.03.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 23.02.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Former [2005/46] | FR | 30.11.2004 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5179056 (BARTLEY WILLIAM J [US]); | [A]DE2745174 (HOECHST AG); | [A]FR2276285 (KURARAY CO [JP]) | International search | [X]US4087622 (NAKAMURA MICHIHIRO, et al); | [X]US4490481 (BOITIAUX JEAN-PAUL [FR], et al); | [A]US4370261 (WUNDER FRIEDRICH [DE], et al); | [A]US4093559 (FERNHOLZ HANS, et al); | [A]US4048096 (BISSOT THOMAS CHARLES); | [E]US5194417 (SMITH DAVID W [US], et al) |