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EP About this file: EP0380138

EP0380138 - Method of forming optical waveguide [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  01.07.1995
Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.02.2006Change - lapse in a contracting state
Updated state(s): FR
published on 05.04.2006  [2006/14]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NIPPON SHEET GLASS CO. LTD.
5-11, Doshomachi 3-chome Chuo-ku Osaka-shi
Osaka-fu / JP
[N/P]
Former [1990/31]For all designated states
NIPPON SHEET GLASS CO. LTD.
5-11, Doshomachi 3-chome
Chuo-ku Osaka-shi Osaka-fu / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Oyoshi, Keiji, c/o Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
No. 5-11 Doshomachi 3-chome, Chuo-ku
Osaka-shi, Osaka / JP
[1990/31]
Representative(s)Füchsle, Klaus, et al
Hoffmann - Eitle
ATTENTION : ADDRESS INACTIVE - USE ASS-NR - CDR / DE
[N/P]
Former [1990/31]Füchsle, Klaus, Dipl.-Ing., et al
Hoffmann, Eitle & Partner, Patentanwälte, Postfach 81 04 20
D-81904 München / DE
Application number, filing date90101626.126.01.1990
[1990/31]
Priority number, dateJP1989001707126.01.1989         Original published format: JP 1707189
JP1989031596105.12.1989         Original published format: JP 31596189
[1990/31]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0380138
Date:01.08.1990
Language:EN
[1990/31]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0380138
Date:16.10.1991
Language:EN
[1991/42]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0380138
Date:31.08.1994
Language:EN
[1994/35]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP27.08.1991
ClassificationIPC:G02B6/12
[1990/31]
CPC:
C03C23/0055 (EP,US); G02B6/1347 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1990/31]
TitleGerman:Verfahren zur Herstellung eines optischen Wellenleiters[1990/31]
English:Method of forming optical waveguide[1990/31]
French:Méthode de fabrication d'un guide d'ondes[1990/31]
Examination procedure06.02.1992Examination requested  [1992/14]
09.08.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
09.12.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
21.01.1994Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
03.03.1994Communication of intention to grant the patent
25.05.1994Fee for grant paid
25.05.1994Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)01.06.1995No opposition filed within time limit [1995/34]
Fees paidRenewal fee
30.01.1992Renewal fee patent year 03
29.01.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
31.01.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR31.08.1994
DE01.12.1994
[2006/14]
Former [1995/34]DE01.12.1994
FR27.01.1995
Former [1995/15]DE01.12.1994
Documents cited:Search[AD]  - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. vol. 43, no. 6, September 1983, NEW YORK US pages 519 - 520; I.K. NAIK: 'Low-loss integrated optical waveguides fabricated by nitogen ion implantation '
 [A]  - PHYSICA. vol. 88, no. 193, 1985, AMSTERDAM NL pages 193 - 205; S. JETSCHKE ET AL.: 'Diffusion and recrystallization processes during annealing of N+- and P+- implanted LiNbO3 '
 [A]  - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS. vol. 22, no. 1, January 1, 1973, NEW YORK US pages 5 - 7; D.T.Y. WEI ET AL.: 'Quartz optical waveguide by ion implantation '
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