EP2677271 - Broadband interferometer for determining a property of a thin film [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.03.2018 Database last updated on 24.07.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 12.01.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.07.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 19.08.2020 [2020/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Mitutoyo Corporation 20-1, Sakado 1-chome Takatsu-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 213-8533 / JP | [2017/17] |
Former [2013/52] | For all designated states Mitutoyo Corporation 20-1, Sakado 1-chome Takatsu-ku Kawasaki Kanagawa 213-8533 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Haitjema, Han 2, Fontanalaan 5624 KP Eindhoven / NL | 02 /
Quaedackers, Johannes Anna 4, Hertgang 5508 LR Veldhoven / NL | [2013/52] | Representative(s) | EP&C P.O. Box 3241 2280 GE Rijswijk / NL | [2013/52] | Application number, filing date | 13167065.5 | 08.05.2013 | [2013/52] | Priority number, date | EP20120172463 | 18.06.2012 Original published format: EP 12172463 | [2013/52] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2677271 | Date: | 25.12.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/52] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2677271 | Date: | 26.04.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/17] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.07.2013 | Classification | IPC: | G01B9/02, G01B11/06, G01N21/47 | [2013/52] | CPC: |
G01B11/0675 (EP,US);
G01B9/02087 (EP,US);
G01B9/02088 (EP,US);
G01B9/0209 (EP,US);
G01N21/45 (EP,US);
G01N2021/4126 (EP,US)
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Former [2013/52] | AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR | Title | German: | Breitband Interferometer zur Bestimmung einer Eigenschaft einer Dünnschicht | [2017/06] | English: | Broadband interferometer for determining a property of a thin film | [2013/52] | French: | Interféromètre à bande large pour déterminer une propriété d'une couche mince | [2013/52] |
Former [2013/52] | Breitand Interferometer zur Bestimmung der Eigenschaft einer Dünnschicht | Examination procedure | 16.05.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 16.05.2014 | Examination requested [2014/26] | 13.01.2017 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 16.03.2017 | Fee for grant paid | 16.03.2017 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 16.03.2017 | 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 13.01.2017 | Opposition(s) | 29.01.2018 | No opposition filed within time limit [2018/14] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.05.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.03.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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