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EP0846770 - METHOD FOR THE EXPRESSION OF FOREIGN GENES AND VECTORS THEREFOR [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.01.2007 Database last updated on 24.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	01.08.2008	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU	published on 03.09.2008 [2008/36]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Japan Tobacco Inc. 2-1 Toranomon, 2-Chome Minato-Ku Tokyo 105 / JP
	[2006/10]
Former [1998/24]	For all designated states Japan Tobacco Inc. 2-1 Toranomon, 2-Chome Minato-Ku Tokyo 105 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / UEKI, Jun, Japan Tobacco Inc. 700, Higashibara, Toyoda-cho Iwata-gun, Shizuoka 438 / JP
	02 / OHTA, Shozo, Japan Tobacco Inc. 700, Higashibara, Toyoda-cho Iwata-gun, Shizuoka 438 / JP
	03 / MORIOKA, Shinji, Japan Tobacco Inc. 2-1, Toranomon 2-chome, Minato-ku Tokyo 105 / JP
	04 / KURAYA, Yoshiki, Japan Tobacco Inc. 700, Higashibara, Toyoda-cho Iwata-gun, Shizuoka 438 / JP
	[1998/24]
Representative(s)	Lord, Hilton David Marks & Clerk LLP 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2004/44]	Lord, Hilton David MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB
Former [1998/24]	Ruffles, Graham Keith MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB
Application number, filing date	97926233.4	12.06.1997
	[1998/24]
	WO1997JP02030
Priority number, date	JP19960172922	12.06.1996 Original published format: JP 17292296
	[1998/24]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO9747755
	Date:	18.12.1997
	Language:	EN
	[1997/54]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0846770
	Date:	10.06.1998
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 18.12.1997 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[1998/24]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0846770
	Date:	08.03.2006
	Language:	EN
	[2006/10]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	18.12.1997
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	23.12.2002
Classification	IPC:	C12N15/82	[2002/39]
	CPC:	C12N9/0065 (EP,US); C12N15/67 (EP,KR,US); C07K14/415 (EP,US); C12N15/8216 (EP,US); C12N5/04 (KR); C12N9/16 (EP,US); (+) C12P21/00 (KR) (-)
	Former IPC [1998/24]	C12N15/67, C12N15/82, // C12P21/00, C12N5/04
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1998/24]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN ZUR EXPRESSION VON FREMDGENEN UND ENTSPRECHENDE VEKTOREN	[1998/24]
	English:	METHOD FOR THE EXPRESSION OF FOREIGN GENES AND VECTORS THEREFOR	[1998/24]
	French:	PROCEDE POUR L'EXPRESSION DE GENES ETRANGERS ET VECTEURS CORRESPONDANTS	[1998/24]
Entry into regional phase	19.02.1998	Translation filed
	23.02.1998	National basic fee paid
	23.02.1998	Search fee paid
	23.02.1998	Designation fee(s) paid
	23.02.1998	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	19.02.1998	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	23.02.1998	Examination requested [1998/24]
	05.05.2003	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	08.07.2003	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	06.08.2003	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	12.02.2004	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	12.11.2004	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	17.03.2005	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	18.05.2005	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
	14.07.2005	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	26.08.2005	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	28.12.2005	Fee for grant paid
	28.12.2005	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)	EP03015445.4 / EP1350850
Opposition(s)	11.12.2006	No opposition filed within time limit [2007/07]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	14.06.1999	Renewal fee patent year 03
	13.06.2000	Renewal fee patent year 04
	13.06.2001	Renewal fee patent year 05
	12.06.2002	Renewal fee patent year 06
	12.06.2003	Renewal fee patent year 07
	14.06.2004	Renewal fee patent year 08
	14.06.2005	Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
	GR	09.06.2006
	IE	12.06.2006
	LU	12.06.2006
	MC	30.06.2006
	PT	08.08.2006
	[2008/36]
Former [2008/21]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
	GR	09.06.2006
	IE	12.06.2006
	MC	30.06.2006
	PT	08.08.2006
Former [2007/29]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
	IE	12.06.2006
	MC	30.06.2006
	PT	08.08.2006
Former [2007/17]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
	MC	30.06.2006
	PT	08.08.2006
Former [2007/07]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
	MC	30.06.2006
Former [2006/46]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
	SE	08.06.2006
Former [2006/43]	AT	08.03.2006
	FI	08.03.2006
Former [2006/36]	FI	08.03.2006
Documents cited:	Search	[X]EP0342926 (LUBRIZOL GENETICS INC [US]) [X] 19-22 * claims 10-12 *;
		[X] - HURWITZ D R ET AL, "SPECIFIC COMBINATIONS OF HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN INTRONS DIRECT HIGH LEVEL EXPRESSION OF ALBUMIN IN TRANSFECTED COS CELLS AND IN THE MILK OF TRANSGENIC MICE", TRANSGENIC RESEARCH, LONDON, GB, (19941101), vol. 3, no. 6, ISSN 0962-8819, pages 365 - 375, XP000602414 [X] 1,2,10,11 * abstract * * page 366, column 1, paragraph 3 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01976768
		[X] - KIM S J ET AL, "HETEROLOGOUS INTRONS ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF HUMAN LACTOFERRIN CDNA IN MOUSE MAMMARY EPITHELIAL CELLS", JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, (19950131), vol. 1, no. 28, ISSN 1225-8687, pages 57 - 61, XP001080585 [X] 1,2,10,11 * abstract *
		[T] - UEKI J ET AL, "THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF TWO-INTRON INSERTIONS ON HETEROLOGOUS GENE EXPRESSION AND ADVANTAGES OF THE FIRST INTRON OF A RICE GENE FOR PHOSPHOLIPASE D", PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY, JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS, XX, (1999), vol. 40, no. 6, ISSN 0032-0781, pages 618 - 623, XP002927002
	International search	[Y]JPH03103182 (MITSUBISHI CHEM IND, et al);
		[X]JPH06343476 (MILES INC [US]);
		[YP]WO9630510 (JAPAN TOBACCO INC [JP], et al)
		[X] - PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Vol. 15, (1990), D. MASCARENHAS et al., "Intron-Mediated Enhancement of Heterologous Gene Expression in Maize", pages 913-920.
		[X] - MOL. GEN. GENET., Vol. 225, (1991), K.R. LUEHRSEN et al., "Intron Enhancement of Gene Expression and the Splicing Efficiency of Introns in Maize Cells", pages 81-93.
		[Y] - PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Vol. 18, (1992), A.H. CHRISTENSEN et al., "Maize Polybiquitin Genes: Structure, Thermal Perturbation of Expression and Transcript Splicing and Promoter Activity Following Transfer Photoplasts by Electropolation", pages 675-689.

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