EP0918168 - Ball joint link [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 23.06.2000 Database last updated on 24.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.06.2000 | Application deemed to be withdrawn | published on 09.08.2000 [2000/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states MAC LEAN-FOGG COMPANY 690 South Chaddick Drive Wheeling, IL 60090 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1999/21] | For all designated states Mac Lean-Fogg Company 690 South Chaddick Drive Wheeling, IL 60090 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hellon, Keith 130 North 2nd Street Libertyville, Illinois 60048 / US | [1999/21] | Representative(s) | McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1999/21] | McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 98308619.0 | 21.10.1998 | [1999/21] | Priority number, date | US19970977176 | 24.11.1997 Original published format: US 977176 | [1999/21] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0918168 | Date: | 26.05.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/21] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.02.1999 | Classification | IPC: | F16C11/06 | [1999/21] | CPC: |
F16C11/0609 (EP);
F16C11/0657 (EP);
F16C11/0671 (EP);
F16C11/069 (EP);
B60G2204/416 (EP);
F16C2326/05 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | (deleted) [2000/05] |
Former [1999/21] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Kugelgelenk | [1999/21] | English: | Ball joint link | [1999/21] | French: | Articulation à rotule | [1999/21] | Examination procedure | 27.11.1999 | Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2000/32] | 20.03.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: examination fee not paid in time [2000/32] | Fees paid | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 12.01.2000 | BE   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | DE   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | ES   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | FR   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | GB   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | IT   M01   Not yet paid | 12.01.2000 | SE   M01   Not yet paid | Penalty fee Rule 85b EPC 1973 | 12.01.2000 | M01   Not yet paid |
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