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EP0907083
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EP About this file: EP0907083
| EP0907083 - Automatic handling of sample cups closed with a screwable cap [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 01.06.2007 Database last updated on 14.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.06.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 04.07.2007 [2007/27] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG 4070 Basel / CH | [2006/30] |
| Former [1999/14] | For all designated states F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG 4070 Basel / CH | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Fassbind, Walter Schutzengelstrasse 38 6340 Baar / CH | 02 /
Schnarwiler, Rolf Rathausstrasse 21 6280 Hochdorf / CH | [1999/14] | Representative(s) | Ventocilla, Abraham Ventocilla Patent AG Burgstrasse 8 4107 Ettingen / CH | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/13] | Ventocilla, Abraham Ventocilla Patent AG Burgstrasse 8 4107 Ettingen / CH | ||
| Former [1999/14] | AMMANN INGENIEURS-CONSEILS EN PROPRIETE INTELLECTUELLE SA BERNE Schwarztorstrasse 31 3001 Bern / CH | Application number, filing date | 98810932.8 | 18.09.1998 | [1999/14] | Priority number, date | EP19970117102 | 02.10.1997 Original published format: EP 97117102 | [1999/14] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0907083 | Date: | 07.04.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/14] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0907083 | Date: | 26.07.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/30] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.01.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G01N35/04, G01N35/00, B67B7/02, B65D39/16 | [1999/14] | CPC: |
G01N35/04 (EP,US);
B67B7/182 (EP,US);
G01N2035/0405 (EP,US);
G01N2035/1051 (EP,US);
Y10T29/49815 (EP,US);
Y10T29/49819 (EP,US);
Y10T29/49822 (EP,US);
Y10T29/53322 (EP,US);
Y10T29/53443 (EP,US);
Y10T29/53687 (EP,US)
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| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [1999/51] |
| Former [1999/14] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Automatische Handhabung von mit einer abschraubbaren Kappe verschlossenen Probenbehältern | [1999/14] | English: | Automatic handling of sample cups closed with a screwable cap | [1999/14] | French: | Manipulation automatique des récipients d'échantillon fermés d'un bouchon vissable | [1999/14] | Examination procedure | 15.06.1999 | Examination requested [1999/32] | 23.08.2005 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.02.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.03.2006 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 09.06.2006 | Fee for grant paid | 09.06.2006 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 27.04.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/27] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.09.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.09.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.09.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.09.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 06.09.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 05.09.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPH03226485 ; | [A]GB2273493 (CANYON EUROP LTD [GB]) [A] 1,3-5 * page 2, line 2 - line 11 * * page 3, line 1 - line 10 * * page 4, line 16 - page 5, line 4 * * figures 1-3 *; | [A]US5366896 (MARGREY KEITH S [US], et al) [A] 1-3 * column 2, line 28 - line 34 * * column 3, line 66 - column 4, line 7 * * column 4, line 24 - line 44 * * column 5, line 20 - line 60 * * column 12, line 4 - line 46 * * column 24, line 1 - column 25, line 15; figures 1-8,12-21 ** column 26, line 11 - column 30, line 6 *; | [A]EP0676643 (BOEHRINGER MANNHEIM GMBH [DE]) [A] 1,3-5 * column 2, line 27 - line 53 * * column 3, line 25 - line 48 * * column 4, line 37 - column 5, line 21 * * column 6, line 15 - column 7, line 41 * * column 10, line 5 - line 35 * * column 11, line 50 - column 12, line 14; figures 2,5,6 *; | [A]US5533407 (BESNIER JOSEPH [FR]) [A] 1,3-5 * column 2, line 3 - column 3, line 22; figures 1-6 * * column 7, line 18 - line 61 * * column 9, line 32 - column 10, line 52; figures 1-6 *; | [A]US5578494 (CLARK FREDERIC L [US], et al) [A] 1-4 * column 14, line 3 - line 17 * * column 19, line 22 - line 39 * * column 43, line 48 - column 46, line 6 * * column 48, line 6 - column 49, line 29 * * figures 29-39 * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19911226), vol. 015, no. 513, Database accession no. (M - 1196), & JP03226485 A 19911007 (SHIMADZU CORP) [A] 1,4 * abstract * | Examination | FR2129254 | GB2187720 | US5826400 |