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EP About this file: EP0487300

EP0487300 - Scanning probe microscopy [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  16.05.1995
Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip16.05.1995Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 05.07.1995 [1995/27]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa-ken 210-8572 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1995/01]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210, Tokyo / JP
Former [1992/22]For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Watanabe, Miyoko, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP
02 / Tanaka, Kuniyoshi, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP
[1992/22]
Representative(s)Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
Marks & Clerk Incorporating Edward Evans Barker 90 Long Acre
London WC2E 9RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/22]Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS / GB
Application number, filing date91310645.619.11.1991
[1992/22]
Priority number, dateJP1990031290420.11.1990         Original published format: JP 31290490
JP1991005687120.03.1991         Original published format: JP 5687191
[1992/22]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0487300
Date:27.05.1992
Language:EN
[1992/22]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP10.03.1992
ClassificationIPC:G01N27/00, G01B7/34
[1992/22]
CPC:
G01Q10/065 (EP,US); Y10S977/851 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB [1992/22]
TitleGerman:Rastertunnelmikroskop[1992/22]
English:Scanning probe microscopy[1992/22]
French:Microscope à balayage à effet tunnel[1992/22]
File destroyed:03.03.2001
Examination procedure11.12.1991Examination requested  [1992/22]
23.08.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.01.1995Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [1995/27]
06.02.1995Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time  [1995/27]
Fees paidRenewal fee
08.11.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
15.11.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
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Documents cited:Search[A]US4877957  (OKADA TAKAO [JP], et al);
 [A]EP0338083  (HITACHI LTD [JP])
 [A]  - REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. vol. 60, no. 10, October 1989, NEW YORK US pages 3113 - 3118; G.E. POIRIER ET AL.: 'A NEW ULTRA-HIGH VACUUM SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE DESIGN FOR SURFACE SCIENCE STUDIES'
 [A]  - JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: PART A. vol. 8, no. 1, January 1990, NEW YORK US pages 327 - 329; M.O. WATANABE ET AL.: 'HIGH-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE'
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