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EP0891944
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| EP0891944 - System and method for cooling which employs charged carbon dioxide snow [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 22.12.2006 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 25.04.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 28.05.2008 [2008/22] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. 39 Old Ridgebury Road Danbury, CT 06810-5113 / US | [1999/03] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Rhoades, George D. 109 Bassford Avenue La Grange, Illinois 60523 / US | [1999/03] | Representative(s) | Schwan, Gerhard Schwan Schwan Schorer Patentanwälte Bauerstrasse 22 80796 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/03] | Schwan, Gerhard, Dipl.-Ing. Elfenstrasse 32 81739 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 98106701.0 | 13.04.1998 | [1999/03] | Priority number, date | US19970891761 | 14.07.1997 Original published format: US 891761 | [1999/03] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0891944 | Date: | 20.01.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0891944 | Date: | 27.06.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/26] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0891944 | Date: | 24.01.2007 | Language: | EN | [2007/04] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 05.11.1998 | Classification | IPC: | C01B31/22 | [1999/03] | CPC: |
F25D3/127 (EP,US);
F25B9/008 (KR);
F16L25/01 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [1999/39] |
| Former [1999/03] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | System und Verfahren zum Kühlen unter Verwendung geladenen Schnees | [1999/03] | English: | System and method for cooling which employs charged carbon dioxide snow | [1999/03] | French: | Système et méthode de refroidissement utilisant de la neige carbonique chargée | [1999/03] | Examination procedure | 28.01.1999 | Examination requested [1999/13] | 07.09.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 22.12.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 16.03.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 16.03.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
27.03.2002
ADMISSIBLE LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Abraham-Lincoln-Strasse 21 D-65189 Wiesbaden / DE | [2002/21] | 02.05.2002 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 10.09.2002 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 25.04.2006 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 25.04.2006 | Date of oral proceedings | 05.05.2006 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 05.05.2006 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 06.09.2006 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 06.12.2006 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.03.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | GB | 13.04.2006 | FR | 02.05.2006 | DE | 01.11.2006 | [2008/22] |
| Former [2007/29] | GB | 13.04.2006 | |
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| Former [2007/17] | DE | 01.11.2006 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5249426 (SPIVAK PHILIP [US], et al) [A] 1 * column 4, line 63 - column 5, line 15 *; | [AD]US3786644 (RICH H, et al) [AD] 1 * claim 1 *; | [A]JPH06199511 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19941025), vol. 018, no. 558, Database accession no. (C - 1264), & JP06199511 A 19940719 (NIPPON TANSAN KK;OTHERS: 01) [A] 1 * abstract * | Opposition | - "Zündgefahr durch elektrostatische Aufladung von CO2", R.Berghoff et al, vfdb Zeitschrift Forschung und Technik im Brandschutz, Heft Nr 2, Mai 1996, 45. Jahrgang, S. 48 bis 56, Herausgeber: Vereinigung zur Förderung der Deutschen Brandschutzes(vfdb) | - E2 Prospekt der Fa. AGA Gas GmbH Deutschland, Kühlen & Frosten - Ausrüstung Schneerohr, Sept. 1996 |