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EP2041537 - CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE REFRACTOMETER: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OPTICAL ACTIVITY [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 21.12.2012 Database last updated on 29.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	21.12.2012	Application deemed to be withdrawn	published on 23.01.2013 [2013/04]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states President and Fellows of Harvard College 17 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2009/14]	For all designated states President and Fellows of Harvard College 17 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02142 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / PEER, Fischer 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02142 / US
	02 / GHOSH, Ambarish 100 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA 02142 / US
	[2009/14]
Representative(s)	Hofmann, Harald Sonnenberg Fortmann Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Herzogspitalstrasse 10a 80331 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2009/14]	Hofmann, Harald 24IP LAW GROUP Herzogspitalstrasse 10a 80331 München / DE
Application number, filing date	07799089.3	27.06.2007
	[2009/14]
	WO2007US72248
Priority number, date	US20060806074P	28.06.2006 Original published format: US 806074 P
	[2009/14]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	WO2008002981
	Date:	03.01.2008
	Language:	EN
	[2008/01]
	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP2041537
	Date:	01.04.2009
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.01.2008 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2009/14]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	16.10.2008
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	30.12.2009
Classification	IPC:	G01N21/23, G01J4/02	[2010/03]
	CPC:	G01J4/02 (EP,US); G01N21/23 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2009/14]	G01J4/02
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2009/14]
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	BA	Not yet paid
	HR	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	RS	Not yet paid
Title	German:	REFRAKTOMETER ZUR MESSUNG DER ZIRKULÄREN DOPPELBRECHUNG: VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR MESSUNG DER OPTISCHEN AKTIVITÄT	[2012/13]
	English:	CIRCULAR BIREFRINGENCE REFRACTOMETER: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING OPTICAL ACTIVITY	[2009/14]
	French:	REFRACTOMÈTRE À BIRÉFRINGENCE CIRCULAIRE : PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL DE MESURE DE L'ACTIVITÉ OPTIQUE	[2009/14]
	Former [2009/14]	KREISFÖRMIGES DOPPELBRECHUNGSREFRAKTOMETER: VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR MESSUNG DER OPTISCHEN AKTIVITÄT
Entry into regional phase	28.01.2009	National basic fee paid
	28.01.2009	Search fee paid
	16.04.2009	Designation fee(s) paid
	16.04.2009	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	27.01.2009	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	16.04.2009	Examination requested [2009/23]
	09.04.2010	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	27.09.2010	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	20.03.2012	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	31.07.2012	Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2013/04]
	05.09.2012	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time [2013/04]
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 09.04.2010
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	30.06.2009	Renewal fee patent year 03
	25.06.2010	Renewal fee patent year 04
	25.08.2011	Renewal fee patent year 05
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	30.06.2011	05 M06 Fee paid on 25.08.2011
	30.06.2012	06 M06 Not yet paid
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Documents cited:	Search	[XDP] - GHOSH A AND FISCHER P, "Chiral Molecules Split Light: Reflection and Refraction in a Chiral Liquid", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, (20061027), vol. 97, pages 173002-1 - 173002-4, XP002560022 [XDP] 1-3,5-6,10-11 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.173002
		[XDP] - GHOSH A ET AL, "CIRCULAR DIFFRENTIAL DOUBLE DIFFRACTION IN CHIRAL MEDIA", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (20070701), vol. 32, no. 13, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 1836 - 1838, XP001505553 [XDP] 1-3,5-6 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.001836
		[A] - SILVERMAN M P ET AL, "CHIRAL REFLECTION FROM A NATURALLY OPTICALLY ACTIVE MEDIUM", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (19920615), vol. 17, no. 12, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 886 - 888, XP000269709 [A] 1 * the whole document *
		[A] - SILVERMAN M P AND BADOZ J, "Ellipsometric study of specular reflection from a naturally optically active medium", THIN SOLID FILMS, ELSEVIER-SEQUOIA S.A. LAUSANNE, CH, vol. 234, no. 1-2, ISSN 0040-6090, (19931025), pages 491 - 495, (19931025), XP025730343 [A] 1 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-6090(93)90315-G
		[A] - SILVERMAN M P, "Reflection and refraction at the surface of a chiral medium: comparison of gyrotropic constitutive relations invariant or noninvariant under a duality transformation", J. OPT. SOC. AM. A, (198606), vol. 3, no. 6, pages 830 - 837, XP002560023 [A] 1 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.3.000830
	International search	[Y]US7301633 (GIBBS PHILLIP RAY [US], et al);
		[A]US6620622 (KAWAMURA TATSUROU [JP]);
		[A]US6166807 (KAWAMURA TATSUROU [JP], et al);
		[A]US6466320 (KAWAMURA TATSUROU [JP], et al)

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