EP0612482 - Filter for smoking article comprising a water disintegrative paper [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application has been refused Status updated on 04.06.1999 Database last updated on 11.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Globe House, 1 Water Street London WC2R 3LA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1999/23] | For all designated states British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Globe House, 1 Water Street London WC2R 3LA / GB | ||
Former [1999/17] | For all designated states British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Globe House, 1 Water Street London WC2R 3LA / GB | ||
Former [1994/35] | For all designated states BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY LIMITED Millbank, Knowle Green Staines, Middlesex TW18 1DY / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Case, Paul David 185 Redhill Crescent Bassett, Southampton / GB | 02 /
Coleman, Martin 61 Wolseley Road Freemantle, Soutphampton / GB | [1994/35] | Representative(s) | Walford, Margot Ruth, et al Patents Department, British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., Technology Centre, Regents Park Road Southampton SO15 8TL / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1994/35] | Walford, Margot Ruth, et al Patents Department, British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., Technology Centre, Regents Park Road Southampton SO15 8TL / GB | Application number, filing date | 94301089.2 | 15.02.1994 | [1994/35] | Priority number, date | GB19930003583 | 23.02.1993 Original published format: GB 9303583 | [1994/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0612482 | Date: | 31.08.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/35] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.06.1994 | Classification | IPC: | A24D3/10, A24D1/02 | [1994/35] | CPC: |
A24D3/10 (EP,US);
A24D1/02 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1994/35] | Title | German: | Filter für Rauchartikeln aus wasserzerstörbarem Papier | [1994/35] | English: | Filter for smoking article comprising a water disintegrative paper | [1994/35] | French: | Filtre pour article à fumer comportant un papier se désintégrant dans l'eau | [1994/35] | Examination procedure | 21.02.1994 | Examination requested [1994/35] | 09.05.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 20.10.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 19.09.1996 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [1999/29] | 21.04.1999 | Application refused, date of legal effect [1999/29] | Appeal following examination | 11.10.1996 | Appeal received No. T0541/97 | 24.01.1997 | Statement of grounds filed | 23.07.1998 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M04) [1998/30] | 27.11.1998 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [1998/48] | 21.04.1999 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the applicant was rejected | 21.04.1999 | Date of oral proceedings | 03.05.1999 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.01.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 15.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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