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EP0694334
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0694334
| EP0694334 - Rotation proof fastener for test tubes [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.07.2002 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Roche Diagnostics GmbH Sandhofer Strasse 116 68305 Mannheim / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/11] | For all designated states Roche Diagnostics GmbH 68298 Mannheim / DE | ||
| Former [1996/05] | For all designated states BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM GMBH D-68298 Mannheim / DE | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Erb, Hermann Speyerer-Strasse 49 D-67136 Fussgönnheim / DE | 02 /
Sattler, Stephan Hans-Böckler-Strasse 13 D-82380 Peissenberg / DE | 03 /
Wohland, Albert Am Stockfeld 24 D-68529 Viernheim / DE | [1996/05] | Application number, filing date | 95110898.4 | 12.07.1995 | [1996/05] | Priority number, date | DE19940011517U | 15.07.1994 Original published format: DE 9411517 U | [1996/05] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0694334 | Date: | 31.01.1996 | [1996/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0694334 | Date: | 19.09.2001 | Language: | DE | [2001/38] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.11.1995 | Classification | IPC: | B01L3/14, B65D47/08 | [1996/05] | CPC: |
B01L3/50825 (EP,US);
B65D47/0804 (EP,US);
G01N35/00732 (EP,US);
G01N2035/00782 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI [1996/05] | Title | German: | Verdrehsicherung für Reagenzgefässe | [1996/05] | English: | Rotation proof fastener for test tubes | [1996/05] | French: | Elément de blocage en rotation pour tubes à essais | [1996/05] | Examination procedure | 31.07.1996 | Examination requested [1996/39] | 17.11.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.03.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.05.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 07.09.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.10.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 08.02.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.02.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 15.02.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 20.06.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.07.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.07.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.07.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.07.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 12.07.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | FR | 19.09.2001 | GB | 19.09.2001 | IT | 19.09.2001 | ES | 26.03.2002 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2006/14] | FR | 19.09.2001 | |
| GB | 19.09.2001 | ||
| ES | 26.03.2002 | ||
| Former [2004/04] | GB | 19.09.2001 | |
| ES | 26.03.2002 | ||
| Former [2002/37] | GB | 19.09.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4753358 (VIRCA NICHOLAS J [US], et al) [A] 2 * column 3, line 25 - line 30 * * column 3, line 46 - line 58; figures 1,2,4 *; | [Y]US4805772 (SHAW JAMES D [US], et al) [Y] 1,2,6 * column 3, line 19 - line 35; figures 1,5,REF.30 *; | [Y]EP0410913 (CEBAL [FR]) [Y] 1,2,6 * column 1, line 9 - line 20 * * column 2, line 30 - line 50 * * column 5, line 36 - line 44; figure 1 *; | [A]WO9204275 (JOHNSON & SON INC S C [US]) [A] 1,2 * page 6, line 23 - page 7, line 2; figure 2 *; | [X]WO9404425 (VERSAPAK INT LTD [GB], et al) [X] 1,2 * page 1, line 23 - line 26 * * page 4, line 20 - page 5, line 12; figures 1-3,6 * * page 7, line 10 - line 15 *; | [AP]WO9419452 (UNIPATH LTD [GB], et al) [AP] 1* page 1, paragraph L - page 2, paragraph 1; figure - * | by applicant | US4805772 | WO9404425 | EP0410913 |