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The EPO is now showing a link to the Divisional application EP2003664, but the link doesn't return anything yet. I have an email into EPO Procedural & Technical Support.

Last edited Thu, 20 Nov 2008, 3:44am by tvillars

TY!
The patents / patent applications have been virtually the only "hard" source of technical info from EEStor.

I searched with EP2003664 under application and got:
03000664 EP1311032 FCI H01R12/32
EP1311032 - High density connector and method of manufacture

Makes no sense??

I take it all back, some cookie snafu? Ignore this :)

All though it is interesting.

Last edited Thu, 20 Nov 2008, 8:00am by Geofree

Just go this email back from support@epo.org.

from	EPO Procedural & Technical Support <support@epo.org>
to	espacenet@epo.org
cc	Tom Villars <tvillars@gmail.com>
date	Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:35 AM
subject	fw: Divisional application EP2003664 not accessible
Dear colleauges,

would you please take over - I checked and this link
gives nothing but an emtpy page.

Thank you,
regards
Plamen Iltchev 

Looks like the support person is escalating the issue.

Last edited Mon, 24 Nov 2008, 8:49am by Moderator

Okay looks like mid December.

from	espacenet <espacenet@epo.org>
to	tvillars@gmail.com
cc	EPO Procedural & Technical Support <support@epo.org>
date	Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:47 AM
subject	Re: fw: Divisional application EP2003664 not accessible
mailed-by	epo.org
	
Dear Mr Villars,

Thank you for your e-mail which was forwarded to the
esp@cenet helpdesk for reply.

Please be informed that the application mentioned below
has not yet been published. The publication has been
prepared, therefore the publication number is present in
Register Plus.  The actual publication date will be mid
December 2008 and the link will be working shortly after
that.

I hope this information is of assistance.

Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincères salutations

Nadja Horn
esp@cenet Helpdesk  
European Patent Office
espacenet@epo.org
http://www.epo.org

I'm very much looking forward to this :)

Thanks for saying on top of this Tom.

Is this D-day?

That, my 1-dollar-bill friend, is the 64 billion of you question. Apparently, as far as extra detail and protection goes, it is not a special day. In addition to that, eestor seems to have their patent applications arse-end frontways and not fully covering what they ought to be. But that aside, fear not, a sprinkle of magic dust and closing your eyes to dream, it shall come.....

I am Jet-lagged and pessimistic... I don't expect any net news out of this...

Ask me again tomorrow :)

Bretspot wrote:

I am Jet-lagged and pessimistic... I don't expect any net news out of this...

Ask me again tomorrow :)

How about we wait 8 to 9 days when it's published and on EPO site? I agree there is likely to be "no net new news" but I'm hoping the rest of the patents might be published around the same time as this divisional patent application.

welcome back, bret

Heh, sorry Tom, just tired and jet-lagged, Don't worry, I want my... I want my EEStor, just as much as the next guy. I'll be patient and wait till the publish :)\
Its good to be back.

I'm sorry too, didn't mean to come off snippy.

Have never been to Thailand, but would love to go. Was going to take a side trip when I was last in Hong Kong but for some reason my wife didn't want me traveling by myself. Can't imagine what she was worried about. ;-)

The US Patent office has a backlog of about 730,000 patent applications. Says publicintegrity.org:

"A massive backlog of patent applications persists at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a problem that experts warn can dampen innovation, discourage investors, and make inventors vulnerable to theft and exploitation."

Is this delay in processing patents affecting EEStor?

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/b...

Last edited Thu, 11 Dec 2008, 10:56am by Dwight

but you can search the patent applications, can't you? we'd be able to find out quite easily if eestor or a b.t. patent application was one of them?

FYI
A new divisional patent application link is now up on the EPO. It also links to nothing similar to the first...

Type: Type Patent family member
Publication number, date, type: WO2006026136 09/03/2006 A2
WO2006026136 14/12/2006 A3
Priority number, date: US91714404 13/08/2004
Type: Type Equivalent
Publication number, date, type: EP1789980 30/05/2007 A2
EP1789980 26/09/2007 A4
Priority number, date: US91714404 13/08/2004
US2005028970 15/08/2005

Type: Type Divisional application
Publication No.: EP2003664

Type: Type Divisional application
Publication No.: EP2015323

May we have the link, please?

that one has an update on 12/12/2008
http://www.epoline.org/portal/public/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4i3dAfJgFjGpvqRqCKOcAFfj_zcVKBwpDmQ726kH6LvrR-gX5AbGlFunK4IAEFiq1o!/delta/base64xml/L0lKa2tna2lBL0lKakFBQ2pJQUVSQ0lnISEvNElFQjlZZ19yQ0doaEEhIS85NTI5MTYvMjAzMDA5L1NlbGVjdExhbmd1YWdl?chosenLanguage=en

HELP.
EPO site giving me fits.
Need a link to where someone else has drilled down, past the BS / poor site design!

http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/bibl...

That should do it. Click on
View document in the European Register
You can then view the divisional application links

The divisional application links come up empty for me. If you can view them, could you copy and post them here?

Both divisional patents still come up blank. Hopefully the first one, EP2003664, should be working by Thursday or Friday.

POOH

Should we be concerned that we have had no news on the EP2003664 Divisional Application?

I have an email into the EPO asking why the application hasn't been published yet.

OK Thanks for the update

Unpublished EP-A documents in 2008
Most recent updates (difference between actual and previous stands) are in italics

Last update: 10.12.2008

Previous update: 26.11.2008

We regret that, due to a technical issue it was necessary to withdraw some EP A documents from publication. Only publication weeks 2008/50 - 2008/52 are affected. The documents concerned are available in the following table.

These EP A documents will be published with a new publication number. We are sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.

EP A1 2003664: 0851

This could take some time to do. TV, something new from your email inquiry?

Publication dates

From 2007 on the publication day for European patent applications and patent specifications will always be the Wednesday, irrespective of whether this day is a public holiday or not.

I expect them for this Wednesday 12/24/2008...a X-Mas gift!

sydd, can you provide a link to the information about what publication numbers will have to be re-done? I'm tracking two EEStor and several non EEStor patents and would like to know if any of them are also on the list.

And yes I do have question into the EPO.

http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/european-patent-documents/unpublished/2008.html

cheers
sydd