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EP About this file: EP0747149

EP0747149 - Investment casting method yielding cast articles with enhanced surface finish [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.06.2001
Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip22.06.2001No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 08.08.2001 [2001/32]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
JOHNSON & JOHNSON PROFESSIONAL Inc.
325 Paramount Drive, P.O. Box 350 Raynham
Massachusetts 02767-0350 / US
[N/P]
Former [1996/50]For all designated states
JOHNSON & JOHNSON PROFESSIONAL Inc.
325 Paramount Drive, P.O. Box 350
Raynham, Massachusetts 02767-0350 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Oti, James
3 Heaton Circle
Franklin, Massachusetts 02038 / US
02 / Lasalle, David
716 Knollwood Drive
Woonsocket, Rhode Island 02895 / US
[1996/50]
Representative(s)Mercer, Christopher Paul
Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
One Southampton Row
London
WC1B 5HA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1996/50]Mercer, Christopher Paul
Carpmaels & Ransford 43, Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2RA / GB
Application number, filing date96304194.206.06.1996
[1996/50]
Priority number, dateUS1995048104907.06.1995         Original published format: US 481049
[1996/50]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0747149
Date:11.12.1996
Language:EN
[1996/50]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0747149
Date:08.04.1998
[1998/15]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0747149
Date:23.08.2000
Language:EN
[2000/34]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP25.02.1998
ClassificationIPC:B22C7/02, B22C9/04
[1996/50]
CPC:
B22C9/043 (EP); B22C7/023 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1996/50]
TitleGerman:Feingiessverfahren zur Erzeugung von Gegenständen mit sehr präziser Oberfläche[1996/50]
English:Investment casting method yielding cast articles with enhanced surface finish[1996/50]
French:Procédé de coulée de précision donnant des objets à état de surface de haute précision[1996/50]
Examination procedure11.09.1998Examination requested  [1998/46]
23.03.1999Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
07.04.1999Reply to a communication from the examining division
23.07.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
01.02.2000Communication of intention to grant the patent
08.02.2000Fee for grant paid
08.02.2000Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)24.05.2001No opposition filed within time limit [2001/32]
Fees paidRenewal fee
15.06.1998Renewal fee patent year 03
14.06.1999Renewal fee patent year 04
13.06.2000Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[Y]EP0649691  (TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC) [Y] 1-10 * the whole document *;
 [Y]US4556528  (GERSCH HERBERT M ET AL) [Y] 1-10 * column 2, line 55 - line 62; claim - *;
 [Y]JPS6418546  ;
 [A]DE3225980  (FICHTEL & SACHS AG) [A] 2 * abstract *
 [Y]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19890509), vol. 013, no. 193, Database accession no. (M - 822), & JP01018546 A 19890123 (MORIKAWA SANGYO KK) [Y] 1-10 * abstract *
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