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EP0731402
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0731402
| EP0731402 - Ventilation systems [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.09.2002 Database last updated on 13.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 18.10.2002 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 04.12.2002 [2002/49] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Smiths Group plc 765 Finchley Road London, NW11 8DS / GB | [2001/20] |
| Former [1996/37] | For all designated states Smiths Industries Public Limited Company 765, Finchley Road London, NW11 8DS / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Ngai, Kwok M. 15 The Spinney Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 8AG / GB | [1996/37] | Representative(s) | Flint, Jonathan McNeill 765 Finchley Road London NW11 8DS / GB | [1996/37] | Application number, filing date | 95309383.8 | 21.12.1995 | [1996/37] | Priority number, date | GB19950003016 | 16.02.1995 Original published format: GB 9503016 | [1996/37] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0731402 | Date: | 11.09.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/37] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0731402 | Date: | 04.03.1998 | [1998/10] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0731402 | Date: | 07.11.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/45] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.01.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G05D22/02, F25D17/06, F24F1/02, G05D23/24 | [1998/11] | CPC: |
F24F7/013 (EP,US);
F24F11/76 (EP,US);
F24F11/66 (EP,US);
F24F11/30 (EP,US);
F24F2110/10 (EP,US);
F24F2110/20 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1996/37] | G05D22/02 | Designated contracting states | CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, SE [2000/34] |
| Former [1996/37] | CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, SE | Title | German: | Ventilationssysteme | [1996/37] | English: | Ventilation systems | [1996/37] | French: | Systèmes d'aération | [1996/37] | Examination procedure | 15.05.1998 | Examination requested [1998/30] | 29.10.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 27.01.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.03.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.06.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.03.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 07.05.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.05.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 22.05.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.08.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/44] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 05.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 24.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | GR | 07.11.2001 | [2002/49] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE3439288 (SIEMENS AG [DE])[A] 1-10; | [A]EP0316545 (SUEDDEUTSCHE KUEHLER BEHR [DE]) [A] 1-10; | [A]US4873649 (GRALD ERIC W [US], et al) [A] 1-10; | [XA]EP0518327 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]) [X] 1-6,9 [A] 7,8,10; | [X]GB2267146 (NORM PACIFIC AUTOMAT CORP [TW]) [X] 1-10; | [X]US5303561 (BAHEL VIJAY [US], et al) [X] 1-10 | Examination | GB2209070 |