EP0928631 - Apparatus for treating exhaust gases containing hydrogen [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 14.04.2006 Database last updated on 05.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.06.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 25.07.2007 [2007/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Fujikin Incorporated 3-2, Itachibori 2-chome, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | For all designated states Hitachi, Ltd. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101 / JP | [N/P] |
Former [1999/28] | For all designated states FUJIKIN INCORPORATED 3-2, Itachibori 2-chome, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | ||
For all designated states Hitachi, Ltd. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tanabe, Yoshikazu 2326 Imai Oume-shi, Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Minami, Yukio 2-3-2 Itachibori, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | 03 /
Kawada, Koji 2-3-2 Itachibori, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | 04 /
Ikeda, Nobukazu 2-3-2 Itachibori, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | 05 /
Morimoto, Akihiro 2-3-2 Itachibori, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | 06 /
Hirao, Keiji 2-3-2 Itachibori, Nishi-ku Osaka / JP | [1999/28] | Representative(s) | Brown, Fraser Gregory James, et al Cleveland 10 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1BR / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2004/52] | Brown, Fraser Gregory James, et al fJ Cleveland 40-43 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1JQ / GB | ||
Former [1999/28] | Crump, Julian Richard John, et al FJ Cleveland, 40-43 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1JQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 99300075.1 | 06.01.1999 | [1999/28] | Priority number, date | JP19980000884 | 06.01.1998 Original published format: JP 88498 | [1999/28] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0928631 | Date: | 14.07.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/28] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0928631 | Date: | 29.09.1999 | [1999/39] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0928631 | Date: | 08.06.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/23] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.08.1999 | Classification | IPC: | B01D53/86, B01D53/46 | [1999/28] | CPC: |
B01D53/8671 (EP,US);
B01D53/72 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [2000/24] |
Former [1999/28] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zur Behandlung von wasserstoffhaltigen Abgasen | [1999/28] | English: | Apparatus for treating exhaust gases containing hydrogen | [1999/28] | French: | Dispositif de traitement des gaz d'échappement contenant de l'hydrogène | [1999/28] | Examination procedure | 22.01.1999 | Examination requested [1999/28] | 19.07.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.10.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.11.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 03.03.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 03.03.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 09.03.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/22] | Request for further processing for: | 03.04.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 03.04.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 28.04.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 05.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.01.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.01.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 28.01.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | GB | 06.01.2006 | CH | 31.01.2006 | FR | 31.01.2006 | LI | 31.01.2006 | [2007/30] |
Former [2007/21] | GB | 06.01.2006 | |
CH | 31.01.2006 | ||
LI | 31.01.2006 | ||
Former [2007/03] | CH | 31.01.2006 | |
LI | 31.01.2006 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4119706 (ROGERS WILLIAM M) [A] 1,11,13* column 2, line 61 - column 6, line 54 *; | [X]WO9500957 (KONRAD IRENE & HF [DE], et al) [X] 1 * page 3, line 33 - page 4, line 15 * * page 9, line 10 - page 9, line 36 *; | [X]DE19548235 (FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH [DE]) [X] 1 * column 3, line 34 - column 6, line 6; claim 1 *; | [A]WO9728085 (FUJIKIN KK [JP], et al) [A] 1,11,13,14 * the whole document *; | [PX]WO9829368 (EXXON CHEMICAL PATENTS INC [US]) [PX] 1 * page 2, line 25 - page 16, line 7; examples 1-3 *; | EP0878443 [ ] (FUJIKIN KK [JP], et al) [ ] * page 18, line 5 - page 18, line 57 * | by applicant | JPS5749895 |