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EP0663071 - METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF PREMATURE LABOR [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 08.10.2004 Database last updated on 16.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	28.12.2007	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): PT	published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states ADEZA BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION 1240 Elko Street Sunnyvale California 94089 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2004/19]	For all designated states ADEZA BIOMEDICAL CORPORATION 1240 Elko Street Sunnyvale, California 94089 / US
Former [1995/29]	For all designated states BIEX, INC. 670 Emporia Road Boulder, CO 80303 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / DULLIEN, Vivian, K. 670 Emporia Road Boulder, CO 80303 / US
	[1995/29]
Representative(s)	Brewster, Andrea Ruth, et al Mewburn Ellis LLP 33 Gutter Lane London EC2V 8AS / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1995/29]	Brewster, Andrea Ruth, et al MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB
Application number, filing date	93922418.4	28.09.1993
	[1995/29]
	WO1993US09210
Priority number, date	US19920952438	28.09.1992 Original published format: US 952438
	[1995/29]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO9408238
	Date:	14.04.1994
	Language:	EN
	[1994/09]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0663071
	Date:	19.07.1995
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 14.04.1994 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[1995/29]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0663071
	Date:	03.12.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/49]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	14.04.1994
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	11.04.1997
Classification	IPC:	G01N33/74	[1997/21]
	CPC:	G01N33/743 (EP,US); Y10T436/20 (EP,US); Y10T436/203332 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [1995/29]	G01N33/48
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1995/29]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN ZUR VORHERSAGE VON FRÜHGEBURTEN	[1995/29]
	English:	METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF PREMATURE LABOR	[1995/29]
	French:	PROCEDE DE PREDICTION DU TRAVAIL PRECOCE	[1995/29]
Entry into regional phase	13.04.1995	National basic fee paid
	13.04.1995	Search fee paid
	13.04.1995	Designation fee(s) paid
	13.04.1995	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	04.04.1994	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	13.04.1995	Examination requested [1995/29]
	25.03.1999	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	04.10.1999	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	22.11.1999	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08)
	02.08.2000	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	09.01.2001	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	26.06.2001	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time
	05.09.2001	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	21.05.2002	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	14.01.2003	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: formalities examination {1}
	04.04.2003	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	25.06.2003	Fee for grant paid
	25.06.2003	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	06.09.2004	No opposition filed within time limit [2004/48]
Request for further processing for:	24.03.2003	Request for further processing filed
	24.03.2003	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	04.04.2003	Decision despatched
	05.09.2001	Request for further processing filed
	05.09.2001	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted
	27.09.2001	Decision despatched
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	08.09.1995	Renewal fee patent year 03
	12.09.1996	Renewal fee patent year 04
	26.09.1997	Renewal fee patent year 05
	04.09.1998	Renewal fee patent year 06
	03.09.1999	Renewal fee patent year 07
	13.09.2000	Renewal fee patent year 08
	24.09.2001	Renewal fee patent year 09
	23.09.2002	Renewal fee patent year 10
	06.10.2003	Renewal fee patent year 11
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	30.09.2003	11 M06 Fee paid on 06.10.2003
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	BE	03.12.2003
	CH	03.12.2003
	LI	03.12.2003
	NL	03.12.2003
	DK	03.03.2004
	GR	03.03.2004
	SE	03.03.2004
	PT	03.05.2004
	[2008/05]
Former [2005/02]	BE	03.12.2003
	CH	03.12.2003
	LI	03.12.2003
	NL	03.12.2003
	DK	03.03.2004
	GR	03.03.2004
	SE	03.03.2004
Former [2004/52]	BE	03.12.2003
	CH	03.12.2003
	LI	03.12.2003
	NL	03.12.2003
	GR	03.03.2004
	SE	03.03.2004
Former [2004/33]	CH	03.12.2003
	LI	03.12.2003
	NL	03.12.2003
	GR	03.03.2004
	SE	03.03.2004
Former [2004/24]	SE	03.03.2004
Documents cited:	Search	[YD] - J. DARNE ET AL., "Increased saliva oestriol to progesterone ratio before idiopathic preterm delivery: a possible predictor for preterm labor.", BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, LONDON UK, (1987), vol. 294, pages 270 - 272, XP000646592 [YD] 1-12 * figure 1 *
		[Y] - G.C.L. LACHELIN ET AL., "A comparison of saliva, plasma unconjugated and plasma total oestriol levels throughout normal pregnancy.", BRITISH JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, LONDON UK, (1984), vol. 91, pages 1203 - 1209, XP000646590 [Y] 1-12 * figures 1-3 *
	International search	[X] - CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Volume 99, issued 1983, YANAIHARA et al., "Hormonal Changes in Relation to the Parturition", see pages 77-78, column 2, Abstract No. 133948f, Int. Congr. Ser. - Excerpta Med. 1983, 598 (Endocrinology), 434-8 (Eng).
		[X] - CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Volume 102, issued 1985, FURUHASHI et al., "Retrograde Time-Scale Analysis of Human Placental Lactogen, Beta Human Chorionic Gonadotropin and Unconjugated Estriol Levels in Human Maternal Serum for the Onset of Spontaneous Labor", see page 93, column 2, Abstract No. 106522m, Gynecol. Obstet. Invest. 1984,
		[X] - CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS, Volume 101, issued 1984, SUZUKI et al., "Changes in Steroids in Amniotic Fluid in Relation to the Initiation of Labor", see page 94, column 1, Abstract No. 222937d, Nippon Sanka Fujinka Gakkai Zasshi 1984, 36(10), 1841-50 (Japan).

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