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EP About this file: EP0798152

EP0798152 - Automatic electric trainline safety interlock [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.08.2003
Database last updated on 12.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip11.01.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 13.02.2008  [2008/07]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
New York Air Brake Corporation
748 Starbuck Avenue Watertown
New York 13601 / US
[N/P]
Former [1997/40]For all designated states
New York Air Brake Corporation
748 Starbuck Avenue
Watertown, New York 13601 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Lumbis, Anthony W.
336 S. Indiana Avenue
Watertown, New York 13601 / US
02 / McLaughlin, Bryan M.
727 Cadwell Street
Watertown, New York 13601 / US
03 / Stevens, Dale R.
15347 Fuller Road
Adams Center, New York 13606 / US
04 / Knight, Arnold W.
2105 Mississippi Circle
New Brighton, Minnesota 55112 / US
[1997/40]
Representative(s)Strehl Schübel-Hopf & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1997/40]Strehl Schübel-Hopf Groening & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date97101223.227.01.1997
[1997/40]
Priority number, dateUS1996062188626.03.1996         Original published format: US 621886
[1997/40]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0798152
Date:01.10.1997
Language:EN
[1997/40]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0798152
Date:16.10.2002
Language:EN
[2002/42]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP03.07.1997
ClassificationIPC:B60L3/00, B61L15/00
[1997/40]
CPC:
B61L15/0036 (EP,US); B60L3/00 (EP,US); B60L3/12 (EP,US);
B61L15/0081 (EP,US); B60L2200/26 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   SE [1997/40]
TitleGerman:Automatische Sicherheitsverriegelung für elektrische Zuglinie[1997/40]
English:Automatic electric trainline safety interlock[1997/40]
French:Verrouillage de sécurité automatique pour ligne électrique de train[1997/40]
Examination procedure31.10.1997Examination requested  [1998/02]
29.05.2000Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
04.07.2000Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.12.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
22.04.2002Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
10.05.2002Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.08.2002Fee for grant paid
02.08.2002Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)17.07.2003No opposition filed within time limit [2003/41]
Fees paidRenewal fee
05.01.1999Renewal fee patent year 03
05.01.2000Renewal fee patent year 04
04.01.2001Renewal fee patent year 05
21.01.2002Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT16.10.2002
SE16.01.2003
[2008/07]
Former [2003/27]SE16.01.2003
Documents cited:Search[A]JPH0678402  ;
 [A]WO9111791  (GULTON IND INC [US]) [A] * page 3, line 25 - page 4, line 17 *;
 [A]  - "Remote control of traction power over two wires", IEE PROCEEDINGS B ELECTRICAL POWER APPLICATIONS., OLD WOKING, SURREY, GB, (1984), vol. 131, no. 4, XP002032936 [A] 1,11,19 * page 137, column G; figures 8,9 *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19940623), vol. 018, no. 331, Database accession no. (M - 1626), & JP06078402 A 19940318 (HITACHI LTD) [A] 1,11 * abstract *
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