EP0708128 - PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYCARBONATE [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 04.02.2005 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD. 6-1, Shiba 5-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1996/17] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
OKUMURA, Ryozo 5-14, Kuranamidai 3-chome Sodegaura-shi Chiba-ken / JP | 02 /
KUZE, Shigeki 6-1, Aobadai 2-chome Ichihara-shi Chiba-ken / JP | 03 /
TAKAHASHI, Seiji 1218-2, Kamiizumi Sodegaura-shi Chiba-ken / JP | [1996/17] | Representative(s) | Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB Siebertstrasse 3 81675 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1996/17] | VOSSIUS & PARTNER Postfach 86 07 67 D-81634 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 94919850.1 | 05.07.1994 | [1996/17] | WO1994JP01090 | Priority number, date | JP19930166943 | 06.07.1993 Original published format: JP 16694393 | [1996/17] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9502006 | Date: | 19.01.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/04] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0708128 | Date: | 24.04.1996 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 19.01.1995 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1996/17] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0708128 | Date: | 17.03.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/11] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0708128 | Date: | 23.03.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/12] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 19.01.1995 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.03.1996 | Classification | IPC: | C08G64/30 | [1996/17] | CPC: |
C08G64/307 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, NL [1996/17] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON POLYCARBONAT | [1996/17] | English: | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POLYCARBONATE | [1996/17] | French: | PROCEDE DE PRODUCTION DE POLYCARBONATE | [1996/17] | Entry into regional phase | 08.01.1996 | Translation filed | 06.02.1996 | National basic fee paid | 06.02.1996 | Search fee paid | 06.02.1996 | Designation fee(s) paid | 06.02.1996 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 08.12.1994 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: JP | 06.02.1996 | Examination requested [1996/17] | 26.03.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 15.09.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 18.09.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.12.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 23.12.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
17.12.1999
07.04.2000
ADMISSIBLE Teijin Limited 6-7, Minamihonmachi 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 541 / JP Opponent's representative Hallybone, Huw George Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2001/37] | |||
Opponent(s) | 01
17.12.1999
07.04.2000
ADMISSIBLE Teijin Limited 6-7, Minamihonmachi 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 541 / JP Opponent's representative Hallybone, Huw George CARPMAELS AND RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | ||
Former [2000/06] | |||
Opponent(s) | 01
17.12.1999
07.04.2000
ADMISSIBLE Teijin Limited 6-7, Minamihonmachi 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi Osaka 541 / JP Opponent's representative Votier, Sidney David CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43, Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | 08.05.2000 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 15.09.2000 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 27.02.2002 | Date of oral proceedings | 09.04.2002 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 09.04.2002 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 09.07.2004 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 04.09.2004 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 01.10.2004 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 07.01.2005 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 19.06.2002 | Appeal received No. T0653/02 | 19.08.2002 | Statement of grounds filed | 28.04.2004 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M02) [2004/18] | 28.06.2004 | Date of receipt of observations in an appeal [2004/27] | 09.07.2004 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.07.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.07.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 29.07.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | NL | 17.03.1999 | [1999/36] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]FR1374030 (BAYER AG) [X] 1-8 * the whole document *; | [PX]DE4240587 (BAYER AG [DE]) [PX] 1-8* claims 1-4 * | International search | [Y]JPS4717978B ; | [Y]JPS61151236 (DAICEL CHEM); | [Y]JPH0436346 (GE PLASTICS JAPAN LTD); | [A]JPH0472327 (IDEMITSU PETROCHEMICAL CO); | [A]JPH051145 (DAICEL CHEM); | [A]JPH05140292 (DAICEL CHEM) | Opposition | EP0575810 |