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EP0704116
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0704116
| EP0704116 - PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVEN FLOW MODULATOR [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.06.2003 Database last updated on 24.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 23.07.2003 [2003/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states NCT Group, Inc. 1025 West Nursery Road Linthicum, MD 21090-1206 / US | [2002/07] |
| Former [1996/14] | For all designated states NOISE CANCELLATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 1015 West Nursery Road, Suite 101 Linthicum, MD 21090 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
BURKE, Michael, J. 1571 Ritchie Lane Annapolis, MD 21401 / US | 02 /
TYE, George, W. 635 Streaker Road Sykesville, MD 21784 / US | [1996/14] | Representative(s) | Cozens, Paul Dennis, et al Mathys & Squire The Shard 32 London Bridge Street London SE1 9SG / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/14] | Cozens, Paul Dennis, et al Mathys & Squire 100 Grays Inn Road London WC1X 8AL / GB | Application number, filing date | 94916804.1 | 24.05.1994 | [1996/14] | WO1994US05643 | Priority number, date | US19930067277 | 26.05.1993 Original published format: US 67277 | [1996/14] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9428621 | Date: | 08.12.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/27] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0704116 | Date: | 03.04.1996 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 08.12.1994 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1996/14] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0704116 | Date: | 31.07.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/31] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 08.12.1994 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.06.1996 | Classification | IPC: | H03B29/00 | [1996/14] | CPC: |
F16L55/0333 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [1996/14] | Title | German: | PIEZOELEKTRISCH ANGETRIEBENER FLUSSMODULATOR | [1996/14] | English: | PIEZOELECTRIC DRIVEN FLOW MODULATOR | [1996/14] | French: | MODULATEUR D'ECOULEMENT COMMANDE PIEZO-ELECTRIQUEMENT | [1996/14] | Entry into regional phase | 20.12.1995 | National basic fee paid | 20.12.1995 | Search fee paid | 20.12.1995 | Designation fee(s) paid | 20.12.1995 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 02.12.1994 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 20.12.1995 | Examination requested [1996/14] | 18.05.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 26.11.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.05.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.09.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.08.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 13.02.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.04.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 08.04.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 06.05.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.12.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 28.04.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 06.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 08.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 10.05.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 25.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | SE | 31.10.2002 | [2003/03] | Documents cited: | Search | [ ] - No further relevant documents disclosed | International search | [X]US3050034 (BENTON ROBERT C); | [A]US3456669 (LLOYD SHELDON G); | [A]US4545561 (BROWN HENRY C [US]); | [A]US4593658 (MOLONEY PAUL J [GB]); | [A]US4812698 (CHIDA YUKIO [JP], et al) |