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EP0680854 - Seat belt retractor system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 21.03.2003 Database last updated on 27.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	11.07.2008	Change - representative	published on 13.08.2008 [2008/33]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states TRW VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS INC. 1900 Richmond Road Lyndhurst Ohio 44124 / US
	[N/P]
Former [1995/45]	For all designated states TRW VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEMS INC. 1900 Richmond Road Lyndhurst Ohio 44124 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / Blackburn, Brian K. 124 Glendale Rochester, Michigan 48063 / US
	02 / Brown, Louis R. 307 Ridgemont Oxford, Michigan 48370 / US
	03 / Mazur, Joseph F. 58471 Winston Washington, Michigan 48094 / US
	04 / Gentry, Scott B. 77221 Hipp Road Romeo, Michigan 48065 / US
	[1995/45]
Representative(s)	Wagner, Karl H. Wagner & Geyer Partnerschaft mbB Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 80538 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2008/33]	Wagner, Karl H. Wagner & Geyer Partnerschaft Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 80538 München / DE
Former [1995/45]	Wagner, Karl H. WAGNER & GEYER Patentanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date	95104857.8	31.03.1995
	[1995/45]
Priority number, date	US19940222120	04.04.1994 Original published format: US 222120
	[1995/45]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0680854
	Date:	08.11.1995
	Language:	EN
	[1995/45]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0680854
	Date:	14.08.1996
	[1996/33]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0680854
	Date:	15.05.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/20]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	27.06.1996
Classification	IPC:	B60R22/343	[1995/45]
	CPC:	B60R21/017 (EP,US); B60R21/01 (EP,US); B60R22/343 (EP,US); B60R2022/404 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [1995/45]
Title	German:	Sicherheitsgurt-Aufrollvorrichtung	[1995/45]
	English:	Seat belt retractor system	[1995/45]
	French:	Dispositif rétracteur de ceinture de sécurité	[1995/45]
Examination procedure	13.02.1997	Examination requested [1997/16]
	07.08.1998	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	17.02.1999	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	12.05.1999	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	22.11.1999	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	31.03.2000	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	09.10.2000	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	13.08.2001	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	16.11.2001	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	26.02.2002	Fee for grant paid
	26.02.2002	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	18.02.2003	No opposition filed within time limit [2003/19]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	07.03.1997	Renewal fee patent year 03
	05.03.1998	Renewal fee patent year 04
	04.03.1999	Renewal fee patent year 05
	06.03.2000	Renewal fee patent year 06
	05.03.2001	Renewal fee patent year 07
	04.03.2002	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	FR	15.05.2002
	IT	15.05.2002
	SE	15.08.2002
	[2008/05]
Former [2006/14]	FR	15.05.2002
	SE	15.08.2002
Former [2003/47]	SE	15.08.2002
	FR	17.01.2003
Former [2002/46]	SE	15.08.2002
Documents cited:	Search	[XA]JPS5787738 ;
		[Y]US3760351 (THOMAS S) [Y] 1-3,7-9 * figure - * * column 1, line 1 - line 21 * * column 1, line 51 - column 2, line 6 * * column 2, line 46 - column 6, line 25 *;
		[XA]FR2197320 (TAKATA KOTYO CO LTD [JP]) [X] 10 * figures 1,2 * * claims 1,4-6 * * page 1, paragraph 3 * * page 3, line 1 - line 29 * [A] 1,3,7,9;
		[XA]WO8501217 (HANAFI AMEUR) [X] 10 * figures 1,2,7,8; claims 1,2,5-7 * * page 4, line 3 - line 16 * [A] 1,3,7,9;
		[A]US4660528 (BUCK GENE [US]) [A] 1,3,7,9,10 * figures 1,5 ** claim 1 *;
		[DXY]US4895317 (RUMPF ROBERT J [US], et al) [DX] 10 * figure - * * column 2, line 30 - column 6, line 46 * [DY] 1-3,7-9;
		[XA]US5069478 (KIM KI I [US]) [X] 10 * figures 1,6 * * column 3, line 1 - line 36 * * column 4, line 9 - line 35 * [A] 1,3,7,9;
		[XA]EP0589466 (MEISTER JACK B [US]) [X] 10 * figures 1-3,7 * * abstract * * column 5, line 1 - column 6, line 3 * * column 7, line 42 - column 8, line 1 * [A] 1,3,7,9;
		[PX]DE4233155 (MUELLER FRANZ DIPL ING FH [DE]) [PX] 10 * figure 4 * * claims 1,2,5,6 *
		[XA] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19820911), vol. 6, no. 178, Database accession no. (M - 155), & JP57087738 A 19820601 (FUJITSU TEN LTD) [X] 10 * abstract * [A] 1,3,7,9

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