EP1091231 - Apparatus and method for directing optical signals using a movable optical switching element [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application has been refused Status updated on 21.08.2009 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.08.2009 | Refusal of application | published on 23.09.2009 [2009/39] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd No. 1 Yishun Avenue 7 Singapore 768923 / SG | [2008/12] |
Former [2007/04] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies, Inc. - a Delaware Corporation - 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95051 / US | ||
Former [2001/41] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies, Inc. (a Delaware corporation) 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 / US | ||
Former [2001/32] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies Inc. a Delaware Corporation 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 / US | ||
Former [2001/31] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies Inc. a Delaware Corporation 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 / US | ||
Former [2001/15] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies Inc 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306-2024 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Wang, Shih-Yuan 766 Encina-Granda Palo-Alto, California 94306 / US | [2001/15] | Representative(s) | Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Leonrodstraße 58 80636 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2007/37] | Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Nußbaumstrasse 6 80336 München / DE | ||
Former [2007/17] | Schoppe, Fritz, et al Patentanwälte Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler & Zinkler P.O. Box 246 82043 Pullach bei München / DE | ||
Former [2006/21] | Liesegang, Eva, et al Forrester & Boehmert, Pettenkoferstrasse 20-22 80336 München / DE | ||
Former [2001/15] | Liesegang, Eva Forrester & Boehmert, Franz-Joseph-Strasse 38 80801 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 00117160.2 | 10.08.2000 | [2001/15] | Priority number, date | US19990415312 | 08.10.1999 Original published format: US 415312 | [2001/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1091231 | Date: | 11.04.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/15] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1091231 | Date: | 26.05.2004 | [2004/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 08.04.2004 | Classification | IPC: | G02B6/35 | [2004/10] | CPC: |
G02B6/3504 (EP,US);
G02B6/29317 (EP,US);
G02B6/3506 (EP,US);
G02B6/3512 (EP,US);
G02B6/3534 (EP,US);
G02B6/3546 (EP,US);
G02B6/3596 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [2001/15] | G02B26/02 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2005/07] |
Former [2001/15] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum ausrichten optischer Signale mit hilfe eines beweglichen optischen Schaltelements | [2001/15] | English: | Apparatus and method for directing optical signals using a movable optical switching element | [2001/15] | French: | Dispositif et procédé destine à diriger des signaux optiques à l'aide d'un élément de commutation optique mobile | [2001/15] | Examination procedure | 05.08.2004 | Examination requested [2004/41] | 21.09.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.01.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.09.2005 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 20.03.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.07.2007 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.11.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.04.2009 | Application refused, date of legal effect [2009/39] | 21.04.2009 | Date of oral proceedings | 08.05.2009 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2009/39] | 08.05.2009 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.08.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.08.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 23.08.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 19.08.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 29.08.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 14.08.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 31.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | [X]EP0367904 (GTE PROD CORP [US]) [X] 1-3,6-8 * figures 2,3 *; | [X]US5920667 (TIAO KUO-TUNG [TW], et al) [X] 1-3,6-8* figures 2,3,7,8 *; | [X] - GONZALEZ C ET AL, "MICROMACHINED 1 X N FIBER-OPTIC SWITCH", IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, IEEE INC. NEW YORK, US, (19970501), vol. 9, no. 5, ISSN 1041-1135, pages 616 - 618, XP000677340 [X] 1,2,6,8 * figures 1,4 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/68.588150 | Examination | DE2651776 | EP0533543 | JPH05241084 |