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EP1517154
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| EP1517154 - Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance image producing method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.12.2008 Database last updated on 09.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 27.11.2009 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 30.12.2009 [2009/53] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC 3000 North Grandview Boulevard Waukesha Wisconsin 53188-1696 / US | [2008/07] |
| Former [2005/12] | For all designated states GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLC 3000 North Grandview Boulevard Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188-1696 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Asono, Kenji 7-127, Asahigaoka 4-chome Hino-shi Tokyo 191-8503 / JP | [2005/12] | Representative(s) | Goode, Ian Roy London Patent Operation General Electric International, Inc. 15 John Adam Street London WC2N 6LU / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2009/31] | Goode, Ian Roy London Patent Operation General Electric International, Inc. 15 John Adam Street London WC2N 6LU / GB | ||
| Former [2005/12] | Goode, Ian Roy London Patent Operation General Electric International, Inc. 15 John Adam Street London WC2N 6LU / GB | Application number, filing date | 04255640.7 | 16.09.2004 | [2005/12] | Priority number, date | JP20030322918 | 16.09.2003 Original published format: JP 2003322918 | [2005/12] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1517154 | Date: | 23.03.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1517154 | Date: | 13.02.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/07] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.01.2005 | Classification | IPC: | G01R33/54 | [2005/12] | CPC: |
G01R33/4828 (EP,US);
A61B5/055 (KR);
G01R33/56563 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2005/50] |
| Former [2005/12] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Kernspintomograph und Verfahren zur Erstellung eines Kernspinbildes | [2005/12] | English: | Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance image producing method | [2005/12] | French: | Appareil d'IRM et méthode de production d'une image de résonance magnétique | [2005/12] | Examination procedure | 23.09.2005 | Examination requested [2005/47] | 16.05.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 24.11.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.09.2007 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.12.2007 | Fee for grant paid | 20.12.2007 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.11.2008 | No opposition filed within time limit [2009/04] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 02.10.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 01.10.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | GB | 16.09.2008 | [2010/01] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPH0315443 ; | [A] - F. SCHICK ET AL., "Improved clinical echo-planar MRI using spatial-spectral excitation.", JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, (199807), vol. 8, ISSN 1053-1807, pages 960 - 967, XP008040957 [A] 1,2,5-9 * pages 961 - 964, paragraph "Materials and Methods" * * Figures 1 - 3 * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19910329), vol. 015, no. 132, Database accession no. (C - 0819), & JP03015443 A 19910123 (HITACHI LTD) [A] 1-10 * abstract * | [DA] - F. SCHICK ET AL., "HIGHLY SELECTIVE WATER AND FAT IMAGING APPLYING MULTISLICE SEQUENCES WITHOUT SENSITIVITY TO B1 FIELD INHOMOGENEITIES", MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, ACADEMIC PRESS, DULUTH, MN, US, (199708), vol. 38, ISSN 0740-3194, pages 269 - 274, XP000695507 [DA] 1,2,5-9 *page 270: 1st paragraph - "A Multislice Spin-Echo Sequence" * * figures 1,2 * | [DA] - J. FORSTER ET AL., "Slice-selective fat saturation in MR angiography using spatial-spectral selective prepulses.", JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING : JMRI. 1998 MAY-JUN, (199805), vol. 8, no. 3, ISSN 1053-1807, pages 583 - 589, XP008040952 [DA] 1,2,5-9 * pages 584 - 586: "Optimization of Spatial-Spectral Presaturation" * * Figures 2 and 3 * | [A] - Y. ZUR, "Design of improved spectral-spatial pulses for routine clinical use.", MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, (200003), vol. 43, ISSN 0740-3194, pages 410 - 420, XP002312165 [A] 1,9 * the whole text, figures 1, 4, 8 * |