EP2255180 - ION DETECTOR AND SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.10.2015 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.06.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 25.07.2018 [2018/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states DIONEX CORPORATION 1228 Titan Way Sunnyvale, CA 94088 / US | For all designated states Board of Regents of the University of Texas System 201 West 7th Street Austin, TX 78701 / US | [2010/48] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
DASGUPTA, Purnendu, K. 2415 River Rock Circle Arlington TX 76006 / US | 02 /
YANG, Bingcheng 305 Summit Ave. Apt. 4 Arlington TX 76013 / US | 03 /
SRINIVASAN, Kannan 2101 Cabana Lane Tracy CA 95377 / US | [2010/48] | Representative(s) | Boult Wade Tennant LLP Salisbury Square House 8 Salisbury Square London EC4Y 8AP / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2013/51] | Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | ||
Former [2010/48] | McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | Application number, filing date | 09714244.2 | 17.02.2009 | [2010/48] | WO2009US34320 | Priority number, date | US20080039695 | 28.02.2008 Original published format: US 39695 | [2010/48] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2009108545 | Date: | 03.09.2009 | Language: | EN | [2009/36] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2255180 | Date: | 01.12.2010 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.09.2009 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2010/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2255180 | Date: | 03.12.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/49] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 03.09.2009 | Classification | IPC: | G01N30/64, G01N30/96 | [2014/04] | CPC: |
G01N30/96 (EP,US);
G01N30/64 (EP,US);
Y02E60/36 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [2010/48] | G01N30/96 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2010/48] | Title | German: | IONENDETEKTOR UND SYSTEM | [2010/48] | English: | ION DETECTOR AND SYSTEM | [2010/48] | French: | DÉTECTEUR D'IONS ET SYSTÈME CORRESPONDANT | [2010/48] | Entry into regional phase | 15.09.2010 | National basic fee paid | 15.09.2010 | Designation fee(s) paid | 15.09.2010 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 15.09.2010 | Examination requested [2010/48] | 29.10.2010 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 08.02.2012 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.05.2012 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.02.2014 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 03.06.2014 | Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO | 23.06.2014 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.10.2014 | Fee for grant paid | 22.10.2014 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 22.10.2014 | 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 08.02.2012 | Opposition(s) | 04.09.2015 | No opposition filed within time limit [2015/46] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.02.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.04.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 21.02.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.02.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 29.02.2012 | 04   M06   Fee paid on   20.04.2012 |
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