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EP1359686 - Variable wavelength light source and optical amplifier using same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 22.05.2015 Database last updated on 16.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	22.05.2015	No opposition filed within time limit	published on 24.06.2015 [2015/26]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states FUJITSU LIMITED 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	[2014/29]
Former [2003/45]	For all designated states FUJITSU LIMITED 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Onaka, Miki c/o Fujitsu Ltd. 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	02 / Hayashi, Etsuko c/o Fujitsu Ltd. 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	03 / Onaka, Hiroshi c/o Fujitsu Ltd. 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	[2014/11]
Former [2003/45]	01 / Onaka, Miki Fujitsu Ltd., 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	02 / Hayashi, Etsuko Fujitsu Ltd., 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
	03 / Onaka, Hiroshi Fujitsu Ltd., 4-1-1, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP
Representative(s)	Hoffmann Eitle Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB Arabellastrasse 30 81925 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2014/29]	HOFFMANN EITLE Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Arabellastrasse 4 81925 München / DE
Former [2003/45]	HOFFMANN - EITLE Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Arabellastrasse 4 81925 München / DE
Application number, filing date	03002139.8	31.01.2003
	[2003/45]
Priority number, date	JP20020130492	02.05.2002 Original published format: JP 2002130492
	[2003/45]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP1359686
	Date:	05.11.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/45]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP1359686
	Date:	21.12.2005
	[2005/51]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1359686
	Date:	16.07.2014
	Language:	EN
	[2014/29]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	07.11.2005
Classification	IPC:	H01S3/30, H01S5/14, G02B26/08, H01S3/094, H01S3/1055, H01S5/0687, H01S5/40, H01S5/022, H04B10/572, H04B10/50	[2014/04]
	CPC:	G02B26/0808 (EP,US); H01S3/302 (EP,US); H01S5/143 (EP,US); H04B10/506 (EP,US); H04B10/572 (EP,US); H01S3/094096 (EP,US); (+) H01S3/1055 (EP,US); H01S5/02251 (EP,US); H01S5/0687 (EP,US); H01S5/4012 (EP,US); H01S5/4062 (EP,US); H01S5/4087 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [2005/51]	H04B10/155, H01S3/30, H01S5/14
	Former IPC [2003/45]	H04B10/155
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB [2006/35]
Former [2003/45]	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, SI, SK, TR
Title	German:	Lichtquelle mit variabler Wellenlänge und optischer Verstärker unter Verwendung derselben	[2003/45]
	English:	Variable wavelength light source and optical amplifier using same	[2003/45]
	French:	Source de lumière à longueur d'onde variable et amplificateur optique l'utilisant	[2003/45]
Examination procedure	20.06.2006	Examination requested [2006/31]
	01.09.2006	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	20.10.2008	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	27.02.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	20.04.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M07)
	21.11.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	04.12.2013	Date of oral proceedings
	09.12.2013	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	12.02.2014	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	28.05.2014	Fee for grant paid
	28.05.2014	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	28.05.2014	Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
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 20.10.2008
Opposition(s)	17.04.2015	No opposition filed within time limit [2015/26]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	26.01.2005	Renewal fee patent year 03
	23.01.2006	Renewal fee patent year 04
	25.01.2007	Renewal fee patent year 05
	23.01.2008	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 07
	26.01.2010	Renewal fee patent year 08
	25.01.2011	Renewal fee patent year 09
	24.01.2012	Renewal fee patent year 10
	05.11.2012	Renewal fee patent year 11
	04.11.2013	Renewal fee patent year 12
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Documents cited:	Search	[A]EP0339840 (AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH [US]) [A] 1 * the whole document *;
		[A]EP0952643 (ANDO ELECTRIC [JP]) [A] 3,4* figures 2,4 *;
		[A]DE19909497 (HOFMANN MARTIN [DE], et al) [A] 1 * figure 9 *;
		[X]US6208679 (SANCHEZ-RUBIO ANTONIO [US], et al) [X] 1-11 * column 1, line 21 * * column 2, line 44 * * column 4, line 3 - column 5, line 35; figure 1 *;
		[A]US2001005387 (YAMADA ATSUSHI [JP], et al) [A] 3,4 * figure 2 *;
		[X]US6298187 (WAARTS ROBERT G [US], et al) [X] 1 * column 17, line 34 - line 60; figure 12 *;
		[X] - DANEU V ET AL, "SPECTRAL BEAM COMBINING OF A BROAD-STRIPE DIODE LASER ARRAY IN AN EXTERNAL CAVITY", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (20000315), vol. 25, no. 6, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 405 - 407, XP000947019 [X] 1-11 * the whole document *
		[X] - "TUNEABLE MULTIWAVELENGTH SEMICONDUCTOR LASER WITH SINGLE FIBRE OUTPUT", ELECTRONICS LETTERS, IEE STEVENAGE, GB, (19910815), vol. 27, no. 17, ISSN 0013-5194, pages 1498 - 1499, XP000259820 [X] 1-8 * the whole document *
		[A] - PAPEN G C ET AL, "Multiple wavelength operation of a laser diode array coupled to an external cavity", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (19930901), vol. 18, no. 17, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 1441 - 1443, XP002103553 [A] 1 * the whole document *
	Examination	US5347527
		US6344922
	by applicant	- V. DANEU, "Spectral beam combining of a broad-stripe diode laser array in an external cavity", OPTICS LETTERS, (20000315), vol. 25, no. 6, pages 405 - 407, XP000947019

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