EP3211469 - OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.07.2020 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 24.05.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Olympus Corporation 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | [2017/35] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
TAKAHASHI, Shintaro c/o OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | 02 /
HIRATA, Tadashi c/o OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | 03 /
IGA, Yasunobu c/o OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | 04 /
TAKIMOTO, Shinichi c/o OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | 05 /
MIYOSHI, Takashi c/o OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | [2017/35] | Representative(s) | Schicker, Silvia Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte und Rechtsanwalt PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2017/35] | Schicker, Silvia Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 16772661.1 | 25.03.2016 | [2017/35] | WO2016JP59686 | Priority number, date | JP20150072979 | 31.03.2015 Original published format: JP 2015072979 | [2017/35] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2016158780 | Date: | 06.10.2016 | Language: | JA | [2016/40] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3211469 | Date: | 30.08.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/35] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3211469 | Date: | 25.09.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/39] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 06.10.2016 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.12.2017 | Classification | IPC: | G02B21/06, C12M1/34, G02B21/24, G02B21/08, G02B21/14 | [2018/03] | CPC: |
G02B21/06 (EP,KR,US);
C12M1/34 (EP,KR,US);
G02B21/084 (EP,US);
G02B21/086 (EP,US);
G02B21/14 (EP,US);
G02B21/24 (KR,US);
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Former IPC [2017/35] | G02B21/06, C12M1/34, G02B21/24 | Designated contracting states | 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 [2017/35] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Validation states | MA | Not yet paid | MD | Not yet paid | Title | German: | BEOBACHTUNGSVORRICHTUNG UND BEOBACHTUNGSVERFAHREN | [2017/35] | English: | OBSERVATION DEVICE AND OBSERVATION METHOD | [2017/35] | French: | DISPOSITIF D'OBSERVATION ET PROCÉDÉ D'OBSERVATION | [2017/35] | Entry into regional phase | 24.05.2017 | Translation filed | 24.05.2017 | National basic fee paid | 24.05.2017 | Search fee paid | 24.05.2017 | Designation fee(s) paid | 24.05.2017 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 24.05.2017 | Examination requested [2017/35] | 24.05.2017 | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 12.07.2018 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 24.10.2018 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.03.2019 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.04.2019 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.08.2019 | Fee for grant paid | 14.08.2019 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 14.08.2019 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Opposition(s) | 26.06.2020 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/36] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.03.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 28.03.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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