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EP0746005 - Electrical switchgear [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.01.2003 Database last updated on 24.03.2026
Most recent event Tooltip	05.12.2003	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): ES	published on 21.01.2004 [2004/04]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states ABB PATENT GmbH Wallstadter Strasse 59 68526 Ladenburg / DE
	[2001/42]
Former [1996/49]	For all designated states ABB PATENT GmbH Kallstadter Strasse 1 D-68309 Mannheim / DE
Inventor(s)	01 / Claus, Frank M. Reckenstr. 27 58511 Lüdenscheid / DE
	[1996/49]
Representative(s)	Miller, Toivo, et al ABB Patent GmbH Postfach 1140 68520 Ladenburg / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2002/15]	Miller, Toivo, et al ABB Patent GmbH Postfach 1140 68520 Ladenburg / DE
Former [1996/49]	Rupprecht, Klaus, Dipl.-Ing., et al c/o ABB Patent GmbH, Postfach 10 03 51 68128 Mannheim / DE
Application number, filing date	96108421.7	28.05.1996
	[1996/49]
Priority number, date	DE1995120239	02.06.1995 Original published format: DE 19520239
	[1996/49]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0746005
	Date:	04.12.1996
	Language:	DE
	[1996/49]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0746005
	Date:	06.05.1998
	[1998/19]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0746005
	Date:	06.03.2002
	Language:	DE
	[2002/10]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	24.03.1998
Classification	IPC:	H01H21/22, H01H13/56	[1996/49]
	CPC:	H01H21/245 (EP); H01H13/56 (EP)
Designated contracting states	AT, DE, ES, FI, GR, NL, SE [1996/49]
Title	German:	Elektrisches Schaltgerät	[1996/49]
	English:	Electrical switchgear	[1996/49]
	French:	Appareil de commutation électrique	[1996/49]
Examination procedure	22.05.1998	Examination requested [1998/30]
	16.01.2001	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	07.02.2001	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	05.06.2001	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	28.06.2001	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	20.07.2001	Fee for grant paid
	20.07.2001	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	09.12.2002	No opposition filed within time limit [2003/09]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	13.05.1998	Renewal fee patent year 03
	19.04.1999	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.04.2000	Renewal fee patent year 05
	29.03.2001	Renewal fee patent year 06
	20.12.2001	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	FI	06.03.2002
	GR	06.03.2002
	NL	06.03.2002
	AT	28.05.2002
	SE	06.06.2002
	ES	25.09.2002
	[2004/04]
Former [2003/47]	FI	06.03.2002
	GR	06.03.2002
	NL	06.03.2002
	AT	28.05.2002
	SE	06.06.2002
Former [2003/19]	FI	06.03.2002
	GR	06.03.2002
	NL	06.03.2002
	SE	06.06.2002
Former [2003/09]	FI	06.03.2002
	NL	06.03.2002
	SE	06.06.2002
Former [2002/49]	FI	06.03.2002
	SE	06.06.2002
Former [2002/37]	SE	06.06.2002

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