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EP0217644
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| EP0217644 - Quadrupole mass filter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.01.1992 Database last updated on 18.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.11.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.12.2007 [2007/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states FINNIGAN CORPORATION 355 River Oaks Parkway San Jose California 95134 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1987/15] | For all designated states FINNIGAN CORPORATION 355 River Oaks Parkway San Jose California 95134 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Fies, William J. 155 Cherokee Way Portola Valley California 94025 / US | 02 /
Story, Michael S. 15745 Wood Acres Road Los Gatos California 95030 / US | [1987/15] | Representative(s) | Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1987/15] | Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 86307396.1 | 25.09.1986 | [1987/15] | Priority number, date | US19850782512 | 01.10.1985 Original published format: US 782512 | [1987/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0217644 | Date: | 08.04.1987 | Language: | EN | [1987/15] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0217644 | Date: | 16.03.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/11] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0217644 | Date: | 13.03.1991 | Language: | EN | [1991/11] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.01.1988 | Classification | IPC: | H01J49/42 | [1987/15] | CPC: |
H01J49/0095 (EP);
H01J49/4215 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1987/15] | Title | German: | Quadrupolmassenfilter | [1987/15] | English: | Quadrupole mass filter | [1987/15] | French: | Filtre de masse quadrupolaire | [1987/15] | Examination procedure | 11.05.1988 | Examination requested [1988/28] | 07.07.1989 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 12.01.1990 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.04.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 03.09.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 10.09.1990 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.11.1990 | Fee for grant paid | 23.11.1990 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.12.1991 | No opposition filed within time limit [1992/10] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 06.09.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 04.08.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.09.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | CH | 13.03.1991 | IT | 13.03.1991 | LI | 13.03.1991 | NL | 13.03.1991 | SE | 13.03.1991 | [2007/52] |
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| Former [1991/49] | NL | 13.03.1991 | |
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| Former [1991/43] | SE | 13.03.1991 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JP59123155 ; | [A]US3617736 ; | [A]US3783279 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 8, no. 247 (E-278)[1684], 13th November 1984; & JP-A-59 123 155 (NIPPON DENSHI K.K.) 16-07-1984, & JP59123155 A 00000000 | Examination | US3321623 |