EP0914285 - REDUCED VACUUM HOLD DOWN SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application has been refused Status updated on 06.04.2001 Database last updated on 12.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.04.2001 | Refusal of application | published on 23.05.2001 [2001/21] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Gerber Technology, Inc. 24 Industrial Park Road West Tolland Connecticut 06084 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1999/19] | For all designated states Gerber Technology, Inc. 24 Industrial Park Road West Tolland, Connecticut 06084 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
DUNCAN, Marvin, H., Jr. 94 Beacon Street Marblehead, MA 01945 / US | 02 /
HAFERMAN, Dan 70 Evans Road Marblehead, MA 01945 / US | [1999/19] | Representative(s) | Carpmael, John William Maurice CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square London, WC1A 2RA / GB | [1999/19] | Application number, filing date | 96933813.6 | 06.09.1996 | [1999/19] | WO1996US14956 | Priority number, date | US19950003437 | 08.09.1995 Original published format: US 3437 | [1999/19] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9709253 | Date: | 13.03.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/12] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0914285 | Date: | 12.05.1999 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 13.03.1997 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1999/19] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 13.03.1997 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.10.1998 | Classification | IPC: | B65G17/46, B65G15/58 | [1999/19] | CPC: |
B65G21/2036 (EP,US);
B65H5/224 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1999/19] | Title | German: | VAKUUM-HALTESYSTEM | [1999/19] | English: | REDUCED VACUUM HOLD DOWN SYSTEM | [1999/19] | French: | SYSTEME DE PLAQUAGE PAR ASPIRATION | [1999/19] | Entry into regional phase | 24.03.1998 | National basic fee paid | 24.03.1998 | Search fee paid | 24.03.1998 | Designation fee(s) paid | 24.03.1998 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 07.04.1997 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 24.03.1998 | Examination requested [1999/19] | 18.06.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.12.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.12.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2001/21] | 28.12.2000 | Application refused, date of legal effect [2001/21] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.03.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.09.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.09.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
Opt-out from the exclusive Tooltip competence of the Unified Patent Court | See the Register of the Unified Patent Court for opt-out data | ||
Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US3389908 (MARTIN LOUIS) [A] 1-8* column 2, line 54 - line 58; figure - *; | [A]US3676979 (SCHUETTE THOMAS L) [A] 1-8 * column 3, line 65 - column 4, line 8; figures 1,4,7 *; | [A]GB2028247 (TALLERES ZUBIOLA SCOOP) [A] 1-8 * page 1, line 23 - line 30; figure 4 *; | [A]EP0503529 (SPIESS GMBH G [DE]) [A] 1-8 * column 5, line 35 - line 52; figure - * | International search | [X]US3592334 (FLEISCHAUER FRED J); | [X]US3889801 (BOYER HAROLD E); | [A]US4295737 (SILVERBERG MORTON); | [A]US4322993 (STUMPF GUENTER O); | [A]US4730526 (PEARL DAVID R [US], et al); | [A]US5234097 (OKUYAMA KOJI [JP]) |