| EP0728899 - Security closure [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.07.2002 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.06.2013 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 24.07.2013 [2013/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Vacant Property Security Limited Hexel House, 1 Franthorne Way Bellingham London SE6 3BX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/35] | For all designated states Vacant Property Security Limited Hexel House, 1 Franthorne Way Bellingham, London SE6 3BX / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
White, David The Chestnuts, 38 Forest Ridge Keston Park, Kent BR2 6EQ / GB | [1996/35] | Representative(s) | Holdcroft, James Gerald, et al Graham Watt & Co LLP St Botolph's House 7-9 St Botolph's Road Sevenoaks Kent TN13 3AJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/35] | Holdcroft, James Gerald, Dr., et al Graham Watt & Co., Riverhead Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2BN / GB | Application number, filing date | 96301154.9 | 21.02.1996 | [1996/35] | Priority number, date | GB19950003458 | 22.02.1995 Original published format: GB 9503458 | GB19950003447 | 22.02.1995 Original published format: GB 9503447 | GB19950024096 | 24.11.1995 Original published format: GB 9524096 | [1996/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0728899 | Date: | 28.08.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/35] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0728899 | Date: | 05.09.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/36] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.06.1996 | Classification | IPC: | E06B5/02, E06B9/00 | [1996/35] | CPC: |
E06B9/02 (EP,US);
E06B9/04 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, NL [1996/35] | Title | German: | Sicherheitsverschluss | [1996/35] | English: | Security closure | [1996/35] | French: | Fermeture de sûreté | [1996/35] | Examination procedure | 09.02.1997 | Examination requested [1997/15] | 01.12.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.02.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.07.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.11.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.10.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 21.12.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 26.03.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 26.03.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 06.06.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/35] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.02.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.02.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.02.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.02.2001 | 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 | IT | 05.09.2001 | NL | 05.09.2001 | IE | 21.02.2002 | [2013/30] |
| Former [2008/06] | IT | 05.09.2001 | |
| NL | 05.09.2001 | ||
| IE | 21.02.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/17] | NL | 05.09.2001 | |
| IE | 21.02.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/09] | NL | 05.09.2001 | |