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EP0952253
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0952253
| EP0952253 - System for collecting liquid spillage at rail facilities [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.12.2002 Database last updated on 15.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.01.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.02.2003 [2003/09] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Century Group, L.L.C. P.O. Drawer 228 Sulphur, Louisiana 70664-0228 / US | [2002/07] |
| Former [2000/28] | For all designated states Century Group, L.L.C. P.O. Drawer 228 Sulphor, Louisiana 70664-0228 / US | ||
| Former [1999/43] | For all designated states Century Group Inc. P.O. Box 228 Sulphur, LA 70664 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Vincent, Jon R. 4205 W. Jevon Lane Lake Charles, LA 70605 / US | 02 /
Gaudet, Richard C. 557 West Houston River Road Sulphur, LA 70663 / US | [1999/43] | Representative(s) | Finck, Dieter, et al V. Füner Ebbinghaus Finck Hano Patentanwälte Mariahilfplatz 2-3 81541 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/43] | Finck, Dieter, Dr.Ing., et al v. Füner Ebbinghaus Finck Hano Mariahilfplatz 2 - 3 81541 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 99106940.2 | 08.04.1999 | [1999/43] | Priority number, date | US19980059748 | 14.04.1998 Original published format: US 59748 | [1999/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0952253 | Date: | 27.10.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0952253 | Date: | 13.02.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/07] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 09.08.1999 | Classification | IPC: | E01B26/00 | [1999/43] | CPC: |
E01B19/006 (EP);
E01B1/008 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, FR, GB, NL [2000/27] |
| Former [1999/43] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zum Auffangen von Flüssigkeiten im Schienenbereich | [1999/43] | English: | System for collecting liquid spillage at rail facilities | [1999/43] | French: | Système collecteur de liquides pour le voisinage de rails | [1999/43] | Examination procedure | 27.03.2000 | Examination requested [2000/21] | 28.04.2000 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 02.08.2000 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, CH, CY, DK, ES, FI, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, PT, SE | 26.04.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 30.07.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.10.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 02.10.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.11.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/06] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 02.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 23.05.2000 | AT M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | CH M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | CY M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | DK M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | ES M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | FI M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | GR M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | IE M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | IT M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | LU M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | MC M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | PT M01 Not yet paid | 23.05.2000 | SE M01 Not yet paid |
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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 | NL | 13.02.2002 | [2003/09] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0539349 (LINDINGER KLAUS JOHANN [AT]) [A] 1,3-7 * the whole document *; | [A]EP0781886 (GEOTEC SYSTEME FUER SAUBERE UM [DE]) [A] 1,3-7 * column W *; | [A]US4010896 (STOCKTON WILLIAM N) [A] 1,3,4,6,7 * column W *; | [PA]US5782405 (VINCENT JON R [US]) [PA] 1-3,6,7 * column W *; | [DA]US4300721 (RICH BRETT) [DA] 1-7 * column W * | by applicant | US4300721 |