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EP0871254
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| EP0871254 - Rotationally unrestrained grounding coupling for external grounding of fittings [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 30.04.2004 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.05.2004 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): BE | published on 07.07.2004 [2004/28] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THOMAS & BETTS CORPORATION 8155 T&B Boulevard Memphis Tennessee 38125 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2003/26] | For all designated states THOMAS & BETTS CORPORATION 8155 T&B Boulevard Memphis, Tennessee 38125 / US | ||
| Former [1998/42] | For all designated states Thomas & Betts Corporation 8155 T&B Boulevard Memphis, Tennessee 38125 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Burrough, Lawrence 5450 Peach Trail Southavan, Missisippi 38671 / US | 02 /
Cole, J. Lawrence 1407 Flamingo Road Memphis, Tennesee 38117 / US | 03 /
Whitehead, James H. 1101 Winsail Drive Collierville, Tennesee 38017 / US | 04 /
Marik, Gregory C. 1950 Riverdale Road Germantown, Tennessee 38138 / US | [1998/42] | Representative(s) | Howick, Nicholas Keith Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/42] | Howick, Nicholas Keith CARPMAELS & RANSFORD 43 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | Application number, filing date | 98302559.4 | 01.04.1998 | [1998/42] | Priority number, date | US19970835399 | 07.04.1997 Original published format: US 835399 | [1998/42] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0871254 | Date: | 14.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/42] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0871254 | Date: | 11.08.1999 | [1999/32] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0871254 | Date: | 25.06.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/26] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.06.1999 | Classification | IPC: | H01R13/648, H02G15/04 | [1999/33] | CPC: |
H02G15/04 (EP,US);
H01R13/648 (EP,US);
H01R4/36 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1998/42] | H01R13/648 | Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [2000/16] |
| Former [1998/42] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Rotierende Erdungskupplung zum äusseren Erden von Gehäusen | [1998/42] | English: | Rotationally unrestrained grounding coupling for external grounding of fittings | [1998/42] | French: | Couplage rotatif pour la mise à la masse externe de boîtiers | [1998/42] | Examination procedure | 26.01.2000 | Examination requested [2000/13] | 23.08.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.12.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 12.12.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 26.03.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/25] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.03.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.04.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | BE | 25.06.2003 | CH | 25.06.2003 | LI | 25.06.2003 | NL | 25.06.2003 | SE | 25.09.2003 | [2004/28] |
| Former [2004/10] | CH | 25.06.2003 | |
| LI | 25.06.2003 | ||
| NL | 25.06.2003 | ||
| SE | 25.09.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/01] | CH | 25.06.2003 | |
| LI | 25.06.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [XA]EP0604117 (ELKAY ELECTRICAL MGF [GB]) [X] 1-5,7,11-14 * column 3, line 54 - column 6, line 32 * * figures 2-6 * [A] 6,8,15; | [A]GB2244388 (C M P [GB]) [A] 1-9,11-15 * page 4, paragraph L - page 5, paragraph 1 * * page 7, paragraph 1 - paragraph 2 * * figure 1 *; | [A]EP0396932 (MESSERSCHMITT BOELKOW BLOHM [DE]) [A] 1,11-15 * column 2, line 30 - column 4, line 7 * * figures 1-3 * |