EP0835955 - Programme controlled washing machine [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 04.05.2007 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.05.2007 | Patent maintained (B2 publication) | published on 06.06.2007 [2007/23] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Miele & Cie. KG Carl-Miele-Straße 29 33332 Gütersloh / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2003/28] | For all designated states Miele & Cie. KG Carl-Miele-Strasse 29 33332 Gütersloh / DE | ||
Former [1998/16] | For all designated states Miele & Cie. GmbH & Co. Carl-Miele-Strasse 29 D-33332 Gütersloh / DE | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hellhake, Wolfgang Gorch-Fock-Strasse 2a 59555 Lippstadt / DE | 02 /
Hockeler, Regine Spexarder Strasse 12 33335 Gütersloh / DE | 03 /
Sieding, Dirk Laakstrasse 27 44534 Lünen / DE | [1998/16] | Application number, filing date | 97116203.7 | 18.09.1997 | [1998/16] | Priority number, date | DE19961041819 | 10.10.1996 Original published format: DE 19641819 | DE19961048838 | 26.11.1996 Original published format: DE 19648838 | [1998/16] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0835955 | Date: | 15.04.1998 | Language: | DE | [1998/16] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0835955 | Date: | 20.01.1999 | [1999/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0835955 | Date: | 11.12.2002 | Language: | DE | [2002/50] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0835955 | Date: | 06.06.2007 | Language: | DE | [2007/23] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 08.12.1998 | Classification | IPC: | D06F39/00 | [1998/16] | CPC: |
D06F34/28 (EP,US);
D06F2101/06 (EP,US);
D06F2101/12 (EP,US);
D06F2103/04 (EP,US);
D06F2103/06 (EP,US);
D06F2103/18 (EP,US);
D06F2103/38 (EP,US);
D06F2105/02 (EP,US);
D06F2105/10 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1999/39] |
Former [1998/16] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Programmgesteuerte Waschmaschine | [1998/16] | English: | Programme controlled washing machine | [1998/16] | French: | Machine à laver commandée par programme | [1998/16] | Examination procedure | 10.02.1999 | Examination requested [1999/14] | 21.07.1999 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 03.11.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) DK, FI, GR, IE, LU, MC, PT | 07.05.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.08.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.11.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.03.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.05.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 11.06.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.08.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 13.08.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
11.09.2003
ADMISSIBLE BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Hochstrasse 17 81669 München / DE | [2003/45] | 01.06.2001 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 26.09.2003 | No. 01: Notification indicating deficiencies in the notice of opposition | 02.10.2003 | No. 01: Reply to notification indicating deficiencies in the notice of opposition | 16.10.2003 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 29.01.2004 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 05.02.2004 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M04) | 24.02.2005 | Date of oral proceedings | 08.03.2005 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 08.03.2005 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 13.10.2006 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 13.10.2006 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 05.03.2007 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 19.04.2007 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 19.04.2005 | Appeal received No. T0507/05 | 05.07.2005 | Statement of grounds filed | 13.10.2006 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 13.10.2006 | Date of oral proceedings | 19.10.2006 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.09.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.09.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.09.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.08.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 20.08.1999 | DK   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | FI   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | IE   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 20.08.1999 | PT   M01   Not yet paid |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]FR2484487 (LABO ELECTRONIQUE PHYSIQUE [FR]) [A] 1,2 * claim - *; | [A]EP0159202 (ESSWEIN SA [FR]) [A] 1-3 * figure -; claim - * * page 1, line 24 - page 3, line 19 * * page 9, line 12 - line 29 *; | [A]DE3910763 (LICENTIA GMBH [DE]) [A] 1,2 * the whole document *; | [A]FR2678959 (LICENTIA GMBH [DE]); | [A]EP0619395 (GOLD STAR CO [KR]) [A] 1,2 * abstract * * column 5, line 4 - column 6, line 32 *; | [A]DE4431654 (MIELE & CIE [DE]) | Opposition | US4400838 | US5161393 | DE4122307 | EP0546606 | DE4202656 | - Strompraxis 1'88,ISSN 0340-7519, Seite 20 | - Test 4/89, ISSN 0040-3946, lfd. S. 326 bis 332 bzw. S. 33 bis 44 | - Lüger, Lexikon der Technik, Band 3 "Werkstoffe und Werkstoffprüfung", Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH, Stuttgart, 1961 | - DIN 60 000 "Textilien", Januar 1969 | - Wicht, "Elektrische Hausgeräte", 5. Auflage, 1978, ISBN 3-7736-2356-9 |