EP2494614 - THREE-STAGE FORMATION OF THIN-FILMS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 29.10.2021 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 19.07.2020 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 05.02.2018 | Most recent event Tooltip | 14.06.2024 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): TR | published on 17.07.2024 [2024/29] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Sunlight Aerospace Inc. 2045 Lincoln Highway Suite One West Edison, NJ 08817 / US | [2019/31] |
Former [2017/25] | For all designated states Sunlight Photonics Inc. 2045 Lincoln Highway Suite One West Edison, NJ 08817 / US | ||
Former [2012/36] | For all designated states Sunlight Photonics Inc. 600 Corporate Court South Plainfield, NJ 07080 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
FROLOV, Sergey 226 Gallinson Drive Murray Hill, NJ 07974 / US | 02 /
BRUCE, Allan, James 2351 Seneca Road Scotch Plains, NJ 07076 / US | 03 /
CYRUS, Michael 41, 26 Locust Drive Summit, NJ 07901 / US | [2012/36] | Representative(s) | Hauck Patentanwaltspartnerschaft mbB Postfach 11 31 53 20431 Hamburg / DE | [2020/52] |
Former [2012/36] | Hauck Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Neuer Wall 50 20354 Hamburg / DE | Application number, filing date | 10770689.7 | 20.10.2010 | [2020/52] | WO2010US53293 | Priority number, date | US20090603285 | 21.10.2009 Original published format: US 603285 | [2012/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2011050015 | Date: | 28.04.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/17] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2494614 | Date: | 05.09.2012 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 28.04.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2012/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2494614 | Date: | 23.12.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/52] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 05.07.2012 | Classification | IPC: | H01L31/18 | [2012/36] | CPC: |
H01L31/0322 (EP,US);
C23C14/0623 (EP,US);
C23C14/3414 (EP,US);
H01L31/0296 (EP,US);
H01L31/1828 (EP,US);
Y02E10/541 (EP,US)
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