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EP0866123 - Method and circuit device for electropermeation or electroporation of living cells [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  20.01.2006
Database last updated on 15.06.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip16.04.2010Change - lapse in a contracting state
State(s) deleted from list of lapses: IT
published on 19.05.2010  [2010/20]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
EPPENDORF AG
Barkhausenweg 1
22339 Hamburg / DE
[2001/01]
Former [1998/39]For all designated states
EPPENDORF-NETHELER-HINZ GMBH
Barkhausenweg 1
D-22339 Hamburg / DE
Inventor(s)01 / Kröger, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing.
Alter Seestieg 4
23899 Gudow / DE
02 / Jagdhuber, Bernd
Am Steinberg 113a
25436 Uetersen / DE
03 / Ricklefs, Hans-Joachim, Dipl.-Ing.
Hirtenkamp 17
22359 Hamburg / DE
[1998/39]
Representative(s)Hauck Patentanwaltspartnerschaft mbB
Postfach 11 31 53
20431 Hamburg / DE
[N/P]
Former [2008/37]Hauck Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Neuer Wall 50
20354 Hamburg / DE
Former [1998/39]Patentanwälte Hauck, Graalfs, Wehnert, Döring, Siemons
Neuer Wall 41
20354 Hamburg / DE
Application number, filing date98103960.506.03.1998
[1998/39]
Priority number, dateDE199711185421.03.1997         Original published format: DE 19711854
[1998/39]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0866123
Date:23.09.1998
Language:DE
[1998/39]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0866123
Date:16.03.2005
Language:DE
[2005/11]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP13.07.1998
ClassificationIPC:C12N13/00, C12N15/87, C12M3/00
[1998/39]
CPC:
C12M35/02 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IE,   IT,   NL,   SE [1999/22]
Former [1998/39]AT,  BE,  CH,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Verfahren und Schaltungsanordnung zur Elektropermeation oder Elektroporation von lebenden Zellen[2004/39]
English:Method and circuit device for electropermeation or electroporation of living cells[1998/39]
French:Procédé et dispositif de circuit pour l'electropermeation ou l'electroporation de cellules vivantes[1998/39]
Former [1998/39]Verfahren und Schaltungsanordnung zur Elektropermeation oder Elektroperation von lebenden Zellen
Examination procedure29.07.1998Examination requested  [1998/39]
20.11.2000Observations by third parties
22.03.2004Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
21.07.2004Reply to a communication from the examining division
17.09.2004Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.10.2004Fee for grant paid
07.10.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)19.12.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2006/10]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.11.1999Renewal fee patent year 03
04.01.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
17.01.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
12.02.2003Renewal fee patent year 06
24.01.2004Renewal fee patent year 07
18.12.2004Renewal fee patent year 08
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[2010/20]
Former [2008/12]IT16.03.2005
Documents cited:Search[YD]US5439440  (HOFMANN GUNTER A [US]) [YD] 1-7 * column 2, line 21 - line 25 * * column 3, line 17 - line 34 * * column 5, line 10 - line 16 *;
 [YD]US5273525  (HOFMANN GUNTER A [US]) [YD] 1-7 * column W *;
 [YD]DE3718941  (BIO RAD LABORATORIES [US]) [YD] 1-7 * the whole document *;
 [A]US5098843  (CALVIN NOEL M [US]) [A] 1-7 * column 3, line 55 - column 4, line 68 *;
 [A]WO8706851  (ELECTROPORE INC [US]) [A] 1-7 * the whole document *
otherUS4943761
    - JONES B. ET AL., "Research Report: Equipment for the Large-Scale Electromanipulation of Plant Protoplasts", BIOTECHNIQUES, (1994), vol. 16, no. 2, pages 312 - 321, XP002940518
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