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EP0725305
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| EP0725305 - A variable reflectance mirror for an automobile [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 02.07.2004 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Gentex Corporation 600 N. Centennial Zeeland Michigan 49464 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/32] | For all designated states GENTEX CORPORATION 600 N. Centennial Zeeland, Michigan 49464 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Byker, Harlan Jay 1210 Birdie Lane Holland, Michigan 49423 / US | [1996/50] |
| Former [1996/32] | 01 /
Byker, Harlan Jay 107 Glendale Avenue Holland, Michigan 49423 / US | Representative(s) | Hayes, Adrian Chetwynd, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2004/13] | Hayes, Adrian Chetwynd, et al Boult Wade Tennant, Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | ||
| Former [1996/32] | Baverstock, Michael George Douglas, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London, EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 96105850.0 | 24.03.1987 | [1996/32] | Priority number, date | US19860846354 | 31.03.1986 Original published format: US 846354 | [1996/32] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0725305 | Date: | 07.08.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/32] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0725305 | Date: | 04.09.1996 | [1996/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0725305 | Date: | 09.06.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/23] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0725305 | Date: | 18.08.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/34] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.07.1996 | Classification | IPC: | G02F1/15, B60R1/08 | [1996/32] | CPC: |
C07D498/04 (EP,US);
B60R1/088 (EP,US);
C09K9/02 (EP,US);
G01R13/40 (EP,US);
G02F1/1503 (EP,US);
G02F1/1533 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1996/32] | Title | German: | Spiegel mit variabler Spiegelung für Kraftfahrzeuge | [1998/40] | English: | A variable reflectance mirror for an automobile | [1996/32] | French: | Miroir à réflection variable pour véhicules automobiles | [1996/32] |
| Former [1996/32] | Siegel mit variabeler Spiegelung für Kraftfahrzeuge | Examination procedure | 04.03.1997 | Examination requested [1997/21] | 13.11.1997 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 13.11.1997 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 05.02.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.02.1998 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 14.04.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.06.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 29.06.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.08.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 09.12.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 15.12.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.03.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 12.03.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP87302530.8 / EP0240226 | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
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ADMISSIBLE Nagoshi, Chieko 18-22 Kasumigaseki-kita 6 chome Kawagoe-shi Saitama-ken, 350-1109 / JP Opponent's representative Grosse, Rainer, et al, et al Gleiss Große Schrell und Partner mbB Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte Leitzstrasse 45 70469 Stuttgart / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/19] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
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ADMISSIBLE Nagoshi, Chieko 18-22 Kasumigaseki-kita 6 chome Kawagoe-shi Saitama-ken, 350-1109 / JP Opponent's representative Grosse, Rainer, Dipl.-Ing., et al, et al Gleiss & Grosse Patentanwaltskanzlei, Maybachstrasse 6A 70469 Stuttgart / DE | 13.04.2000 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 21.08.2000 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 09.10.2003 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 09.10.2003 | Date of oral proceedings | 19.11.2003 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 19.11.2003 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 06.04.2004 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 08.06.2004 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 15.04.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 24.03.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 30.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 25.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 13 |
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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 | 09.06.1999 | [2006/14] |
| Former [2000/25] | FR | 05.11.1999 | Cited in | Opposition | Soviet Electrochemistry, Vol. 13, pages 346-349 (1977) | Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics, Vol. 22, pages 471-474 (1984) |