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EP0717378
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| EP0717378 - Postage metering system with dedicated and non-dedicated postage printing means [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.03.2005 Database last updated on 27.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.03.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 20.04.2005 [2005/16] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Pitney Bowes Inc. World Headquarters One Elmcroft Road Stamford, CT 06926-0700 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/25] | For all designated states PITNEY BOWES INC. World Headquarters One Elmcroft Stamford Connecticut 06926-0700 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Seestrom, Frank E. 166 Georgetown Road Weston, CT 06883 / US | [1996/25] | Representative(s) | Avery, Stephen John, et al Hoffmann Eitle ATTENTION : ADDRESS INACTIVE - USE ASS-NR - CDR / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/25] | Avery, Stephen John, et al Hoffmann, Eitle & Partner, Patent- und Rechtsanwälte, Arabellastrasse 4 81925 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 95119859.7 | 15.12.1995 | [1996/25] | Priority number, date | US19940356748 | 15.12.1994 Original published format: US 356748 | [1996/25] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0717378 | Date: | 19.06.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/25] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0717378 | Date: | 13.10.1999 | [1999/41] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0717378 | Date: | 28.04.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/18] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.08.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G07B17/04 | [1996/25] | CPC: |
G07B17/00508 (EP,US);
G07B17/0008 (EP,US);
G07B17/00193 (EP,US);
G07B2017/00137 (EP,US);
G07B2017/00201 (EP,US);
G07B2017/00596 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1996/25] | Title | German: | Frankiersystem mit zugeordneten und nichtzugeordneten Postgebührendruckeinrichtungen | [1996/25] | English: | Postage metering system with dedicated and non-dedicated postage printing means | [1996/25] | French: | Système d'affranchissement avec des installations d'impression d'affranchissement attribuées et non-attribuées | [1996/25] | Examination procedure | 21.03.2000 | Examination requested [2000/20] | 22.05.2000 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 25.07.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 30.01.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.04.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.08.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.09.2003 | Date of oral proceedings | 11.11.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 11.11.2003 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 16.02.2004 | Fee for grant paid | 16.02.2004 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.01.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/16] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 31.12.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 23.12.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 29.12.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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