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EP1365270 - VARIABLE MIRROR AND INFORMATION APPARATUS COMPRISING VARIABLE MIRROR [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.11.2012 Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	23.11.2012	No opposition filed within time limit	published on 26.12.2012 [2012/52]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Panasonic Corporation 1006, Oaza Kadoma Kadoma-shi Osaka 571-8501 / JP
	[N/P]
Former [2008/47]	For all designated states Panasonic Corporation 1006, Oaza Kadoma Kadoma-shi Osaka 571-8501 / JP
Former [2003/48]	For all designated states MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. 1006, Oaza-Kadoma Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / MUSHIKA, Yoshihiro 30-6-409, Miiminamimachi Neyagawa-shi, Osaka 572-0019 / JP
	02 / TAKIZAWA, Teruyuki 30-5-707, Miiminamimachi Neyagawa-shi, Osaka 572-0019 / JP
	[2003/48]
Representative(s)	Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2012/03]	Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Leopoldstrasse 4 80802 München / DE
Former [2003/48]	Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Maximilianstrasse 58 80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date	02710376.1	29.01.2002
	[2003/48]
	WO2002JP00676
Priority number, date	JP20010021143	30.01.2001 Original published format: JP 2001021143
	JP20010117845	17.04.2001 Original published format: JP 2001117845
	[2003/48]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO02061488
	Date:	08.08.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/32]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1365270
	Date:	26.11.2003
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 08.08.2002 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2003/48]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1365270
	Date:	18.01.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/03]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	08.08.2002
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	26.10.2007
Classification	IPC:	G11B7/125, G11B7/135, G02B26/06	[2007/36]
	CPC:	G02B3/0068 (EP,US); G11B7/1362 (EP,KR,US); G02B26/06 (EP,KR,US); G02B26/0825 (EP,US); G02B26/0841 (EP,US); G02B3/0043 (EP,US); (+) G02B3/005 (EP,US); G02B3/0056 (EP,US); G11B7/124 (EP,US); G11B7/131 (EP,US); G11B7/1369 (KR); G11B7/13927 (EP,US); G11B2007/0006 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [2003/48]	G02B26/06, G11B7/125, G11B7/135
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [2012/03]
Former [2003/48]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR
Title	German:	VARIABLER SPIEGEL UND INFORMATIONSVORRICHTUNG MIT VARIABLEM SPIEGEL	[2003/48]
	English:	VARIABLE MIRROR AND INFORMATION APPARATUS COMPRISING VARIABLE MIRROR	[2003/48]
	French:	MIROIR VARIABLE ET DISPOSITIF D'INFORMATION COMPRENANT CE MIROIR VARIABLE	[2003/48]
Entry into regional phase	29.07.2003	Translation filed
	29.07.2003	National basic fee paid
	29.07.2003	Search fee paid
	29.07.2003	Designation fee(s) paid
	29.07.2003	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	20.06.2002	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: JP
	29.07.2003	Examination requested [2003/48]
	11.12.2007	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	12.06.2009	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	16.10.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	09.08.2011	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	06.12.2011	Fee for grant paid
	06.12.2011	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 12.06.2009
Opposition(s)	19.10.2012	No opposition filed within time limit [2012/52]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	30.01.2004	Renewal fee patent year 03
	28.01.2005	Renewal fee patent year 04
	20.01.2006	Renewal fee patent year 05
	30.01.2007	Renewal fee patent year 06
	30.01.2008	Renewal fee patent year 07
	31.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 08
	29.01.2010	Renewal fee patent year 09
	28.01.2011	Renewal fee patent year 10
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	IT	18.01.2012
	NL	18.01.2012
	[2012/50]
Former [2012/35]	NL	18.01.2012
Documents cited:	Search	[X]US5079544 (DEMOND THOMAS W [US], et al) [X] 1-17,28,40,42* abstract *;
		[X]GB2322711 (DAEWOO ELECTRONICS CO LTD [KR]) [X] 1-17,28,40,42 * abstract *;
		[X]US6028689 (MICHALICEK M ADRIAN [US], et al) [X] 1-17,28,40,42 * abstract *
	International search	[X]JPH11231234 (ASAHI OPTICAL CO LTD);
		[Y]JPH11305159 (SEIKO INSTR INC);
		[Y]US5079544 (DEMOND THOMAS W [US], et al);
		[Y]JP2000182268 (PIONEER ELECTRONIC CORP);
		[AE]JP2001242394 (20 10 PERFECT VISION OPTISCHE);
		[X]JP2000137926 (PIONEER ELECTRONIC CORP);
		[X]JPH10222856 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO);
		[Y]JPH01253841 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD);
		[Y]JP2000235715 (SONY CORP);
		[Y]JPH1173658 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD);
		[Y]EP0790604 (TOSHIBA KK [JP]);
		[Y]JPH09237425 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO);
		[Y]JPH10289468 (KONISHIROKU PHOTO IND)
		[Y] - TADASHI ARIGA, "Hosho kogaku no tsushin keisoku eno oyo", THE JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERS, (1997), vol. 80, no. 12, pages 1237 - 1241, XP002954462
		[A] - KRISHNAMOORTHY MALI R. ET AL., "Development of microelectromechanical deformable mirrors for phase modulation of light", OPTICAL ENGINEERING, (199702), vol. 36, no. 2, pages 542 - 548, XP002954463 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.601599

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