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EP0670680
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| EP0670680 - USE OF EDIBLE FILM TO PROLONG CHEWING GUM SHELF LIFE [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 21.01.2000 Database last updated on 20.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY 410 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/37] | For all designated states WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY 410 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois 60611 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
MEYERS, Marc, A. 1428 Baldwin Drive Naperville, IL 60565 / US | [1995/37] | Representative(s) | Baverstock, Michael George Douglas, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT, Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/37] | Baverstock, Michael George Douglas, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London, EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 93910697.7 | 20.04.1993 | [1995/37] | WO1993US03752 | Priority number, date | US19920871962 | 21.04.1992 Original published format: US 871962 | [1995/37] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9320710 | Date: | 28.10.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/26] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0670680 | Date: | 13.09.1995 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 28.10.1993 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1995/37] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0670680 | Date: | 17.03.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/11] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 28.10.1993 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.03.1995 | Classification | IPC: | A23G3/30 | [1995/37] | CPC: |
A23G3/343 (EP,US);
A23G4/025 (EP,US);
A23G4/06 (EP,US);
A23G4/08 (EP,US);
A23G4/10 (EP,US);
A23G4/20 (EP,US);
| C-Set: |
A23G3/343, A23G2200/00 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, DK, FR, GB, IT [1995/37] | Title | German: | VERWENDUNG VON ESSBAREM FILM ZUR VERLÄNGERUNG DER HALTBARKEIT VON KAUGUMMI | [1999/11] | English: | USE OF EDIBLE FILM TO PROLONG CHEWING GUM SHELF LIFE | [1995/37] | French: | UTILISATION D'UN FILM COMESTIBLE POUR PROLONGER LA DUREE DE CONSERVATION D'UN CHEWING-GUM | [1995/37] |
| Former [1995/37] | VERWENDUNG VON ESSBAREM FILM ZUR VERLÄNGERUNG DER HALTBARKEIT VON KAUGUMMIS | Entry into regional phase | 10.11.1994 | National basic fee paid | 10.11.1994 | Search fee paid | 10.11.1994 | Designation fee(s) paid | 10.11.1994 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 09.11.1993 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: FR | 10.11.1994 | Examination requested [1995/37] | 08.10.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 18.04.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.08.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 12.08.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.03.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 28.07.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.11.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 02.11.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 18.12.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/10] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 04.04.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 16.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.04.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.04.1998 | 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 | IT | 17.03.1999 | DK | 17.06.1999 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2003/45] | DK | 17.06.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [PX]EP0516310 (WRIGLEY W M JUN CO [US]) [PX] 1-3,5,10,14-19 * column 5, line 34 - line 41 * * column 6, line 5 - line 45; examples 1-4 *; | [X]BE675020 (BOEHRINGER & SOEHNE) [X] 1,14,15 * claim .; tables 1,2 *; | [X]EP0263224 (WARNER LAMBERT CO [US]) [X] 1-3,5,14-16,18,19 * page 5, line 27 - line 42 * * page 6, line 1 - line 10 *; | [A]LU71337 (SOREAT) [A] 1,14 * the whole document * | International search | [A]US4822622 (DOKUZOVIC ZDRAVKO [CA], et al); | [A]US4915971 (FENNEMA OWEN R [US], et al) | by applicant | WO8703453 | WO8600501 |