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EP1423387 - PHOTOCHROMIC BIS-NAPHTHOPYRAN COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 21.01.2011 Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	29.07.2011	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IE	published on 31.08.2011 [2011/35]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE) 147, rue de Paris 94220 Charenton-le-Pont / FR
	[N/P]
Former [2010/11]	For all designated states ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE) 147, Rue de Paris 94220 Charenton-le-Pont / FR
Former [2005/43]	For all designated states ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE) 147 rue de Paris 94220 Charenton le Pont / FR
Former [2004/23]	For all designated states Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. 7500 Centurion Parkway, Suite 100 Jacksonville, FL 32256 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / ZHAO, Weili Hirzenbachstrasse 77/8 CH-8051 Zurich / CH
	02 / CARRIERA, Erik, M. Chapfstrasse 73 CH-8124 Zumikon / CH
	[2004/23]
Representative(s)	Perin, Georges Cabinet Plasseraud ATTENTION : ADDRESS INACTIVE - USE ASS-NR - CDR Paris / FR
	[N/P]
Former [2005/43]	Perin, Georges Cabinet Plasseraud, 65/67, rue de la Victoire 75440 Paris Cedex 9 / FR
Former [2004/23]	Mercer, Christopher Paul, et al Carpmaels & Ransford, 43-45 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB
Application number, filing date	02797735.4	13.08.2002
	[2004/23]
	WO2002US25669
Priority number, date	US20010945897	04.09.2001 Original published format: US 945897
	[2004/23]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO03020718
	Date:	13.03.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/11]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1423387
	Date:	02.06.2004
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 13.03.2003 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2004/23]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1423387
	Date:	17.03.2010
	Language:	EN
	[2010/11]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	EP	13.03.2003
Classification	IPC:	C07D409/04, G02B5/23, C09K9/00	[2009/47]
	CPC:	C07D409/14 (EP,KR,US)
	Former IPC [2004/23]	C07D409/04, G02B5/23
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IE, IT [2009/47]
Former [2004/23]	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, SK, TR
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	LT	Not yet paid
	LV	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	RO	Not yet paid
	SI	Not yet paid
Title	German:	PHOTOCHROME BIS-NAPHTOPYRANVERBINDUNGEN UND VERFAHREN ZU DEREN HERSTELLUNG	[2004/23]
	English:	PHOTOCHROMIC BIS-NAPHTHOPYRAN COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE	[2004/23]
	French:	COMPOSES PHOTOCHROMES DE BIS-NAPHTHOPYRAN ET LEUR PROCEDE DE FABRICATION	[2004/23]
Entry into regional phase	05.03.2004	National basic fee paid
	05.03.2004	Designation fee(s) paid
	05.03.2004	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	02.04.2003	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
	05.03.2004	Examination requested [2004/23]
	15.06.2004	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	14.12.2004	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	23.06.2006	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	18.12.2006	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	10.04.2007	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
	26.04.2007	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	27.10.2009	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	05.02.2010	Fee for grant paid
	05.02.2010	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	20.12.2010	No opposition filed within time limit [2011/08]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	05.03.2004	Renewal fee patent year 03
	12.08.2005	Renewal fee patent year 04
	07.07.2006	Renewal fee patent year 05
	11.07.2007	Renewal fee patent year 06
	04.07.2008	Renewal fee patent year 07
	20.07.2009	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	IT	17.03.2010
	IE	13.08.2010
	[2011/35]
Former [2011/14]	IT	17.03.2010
Cited in	International search	[Y]WO9601884 (RODENSTOCK OPTIK G [DE], et al) [Y] 1-11 * Claims 1-4; p. 2, l. 23-29; p. 3, l. 22-27; ex. 2,4,6 *;
		[A]US6281366 (FRIGOLI MICHEL [FR], et al) [A] 1-11 * Claims 1-15; Formula (I); col. 6, l. 65-col. 7, l. 20; ex. 7 *;
		[PX] - YASSAR, A. ET AL, "Molecular switch devices realized by photochromic oligothiophenes", SYNTHETIC METALS, (2001), vol. 124, no. 1, pages 23 - 27, XP002219612 [PX] 1-11 * Compounds V and IX * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0379-6779(01)00414-3
		[PX] - ZHAO, WEILI ET AL, "A smart photochromophore through synergistic coupling of photochromic subunits", JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, (2002), vol. 124, no. 8, pages 1582 - 1583, XP002219613 [PX] 1-11 * Compound 1 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja017291b
		[Y] - MOUSTROU ET AL, "Synthesis of thiophene-substituted 3H-naphtho[2,1-b]pyrans, precursors of photomodulated materials", HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA, VERLAG HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA. BASEL, CH, (1998), vol. 81, no. 7, ISSN 0018-019X, pages 1293 - 1302, XP002132847 [Y] 1-11 * Compound 16; p. 1296, l. 28-p. 1297, l. 10 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19980810540
		[A] - SAMAT A ET AL, "Synthesis and unexpected photochemical behaviour of biphotochromic systems involving spirooxazines and naphthopyrans linked by an ethylenic bridge", TETRAHEDRON, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, AMSTERDAM, NL, (20010820), vol. 57, no. 34, ISSN 0040-4020, pages 7349 - 7359, XP004301019 [A] 1-11 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(01)00693-7

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