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EP0961657 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION OF CARBON FROM FLYASH [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 30.05.2003 Database last updated on 30.09.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	26.09.2003	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): DK	published on 12.11.2003 [2003/46]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states SEPARATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. Suite 303, 10 Kearney Road Needham, Massachusetts 02194 / US
	[1999/49]
Inventor(s)	01 / BITTNER, James, D. 10 Kearney Road, Suite 303 Needham, MA 02194 / US
	02 / DUNN, Thomas, M. 7 Alice Avenue Wilmington, MA 01887 / US
	03 / HRACH, Frank, J., Jr. 19 Majac Way Mansfield, MA 02048 / US
	[2000/11]
Former [1999/49]	01 / BITTNER, James, D. 10 Newport Drive Westford, MA 01886 / US
	02 / DUNN, Thomas, M. 7 Alice Avenue Wilmington, MA 01887 / US
	03 / HRACH, Frank, J., Jr. 19 Majac Way Mansfield, MA 02048 / US
Representative(s)	Gill, Siân Victoria, et al Venner Shipley LLP 200 Aldersgate London EC1A 4HD / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1999/49]	Hughes, Siân Victoria, et al Venner, Shipley & Co 20 Little Britain London EC1A 7DH / GB
Application number, filing date	98906625.3	23.02.1998
	[1999/49]
	WO1998US03420
Priority number, date	US19970805157	24.02.1997 Original published format: US 805157
	[1999/49]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO9836844
	Date:	27.08.1998
	Language:	EN
	[1998/34]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0961657
	Date:	08.12.1999
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 27.08.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[1999/49]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0961657
	Date:	24.07.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/30]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	EP	27.08.1998
Classification	IPC:	B03C7/00, B03B9/00	[1999/49]
	CPC:	B03B9/04 (EP,KR,US); B03C7/006 (EP,KR,US)
Designated contracting states	BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, PT [1999/49]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND APPARAT ZUR TRENNUNG VON KOHLENSTOFF AUS FLUGASCHE	[1999/49]
	English:	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATION OF CARBON FROM FLYASH	[1999/49]
	French:	PROCEDE ET APPAREIL PERMETTANT DE SEPARER LE CARBONE PRESENT DANS DES CENDRES VOLANTES	[1999/49]
Entry into regional phase	23.09.1999	National basic fee paid
	23.09.1999	Designation fee(s) paid
	23.09.1999	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	22.09.1998	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
	23.09.1999	Examination requested [1999/49]
	17.01.2002	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	17.05.2002	Fee for grant paid
	17.05.2002	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	27.05.2002	Communication of intention to grant the patent
Opposition(s)	25.04.2003	No opposition filed within time limit [2003/29]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	19.01.2000	Renewal fee patent year 03
	25.01.2001	Renewal fee patent year 04
	21.02.2002	Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	CH	24.07.2002
	GR	24.07.2002
	LI	24.07.2002
	DK	24.10.2002
	PT	24.10.2002
	[2003/46]
Former [2003/31]	CH	24.07.2002
	GR	24.07.2002
	LI	24.07.2002
	PT	24.10.2002
Former [2003/22]	GR	24.07.2002
	PT	24.10.2002
Former [2003/20]	GR	24.07.2002
Cited in	International search	[YA]JPS57171454 ;
		[A]JPS5949858 ;
		[YA]US4482351 (KITAZAWA KOHJI [JP], et al) [Y] 1,13 * the whole document * [A] 2,10-12,14,17;
		[DA]US5513755 (HEAVILON JERRY L [US], et al) [DA] 1,3,13 * column 2, line 23 - column 3, line 11 * * column 5, line 15 - line 58; figure 1; claims 1,2 *;
		[YA] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19830120), vol. 007, no. 014, Database accession no. (C - 146), & JP57171454 A 19821022 (FUJI DENKI SOUGOU KENKYUSHO:KK;OTHERS: 01) [Y] 1,13 * abstract * [A] 3
		[A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19840627), vol. 008, no. 138, Database accession no. (C - 231), & JP59049858 A 19840322 (FUJI DENKI SOUGOU KENKYUSHO:KK;OTHERS: 01) [A] 1,13 * abstract *
		[DA] - D.R.WHITLOCK, "Electrostatic separation of unburned carbon from fly ash", PROCEEDINGS TENTH INT.ASH USE SYMPOSIUM, (1993), vol. 2, pages 70-1 - 70-2, XP002063618 [DA] 22 * pages 70-1 *

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