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EP0599299
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| EP0599299 - Method and apparatus for polishing a workpiece [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.12.1998 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2003 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 19.02.2003 [2003/08] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa-ken 210-8572 / JP | For all designated states EBARA CORPORATION 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/06] | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210 / JP | ||
| For all designated states EBARA CORPORATION 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | |||
| Former [1994/22] | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210, Tokyo / JP | ||
| For all designated states EBARA CORPORATION 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Okumura, Katsuya 2 Argent Drive Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603 / US | 02 /
Watanabe, Tohru 11 Aspen Road, Hopewell Junction, N.Y. 12533 / US | 03 /
Aoki, Riichirou, c/o Toshiba Co. Horikawacho Works 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken / JP | 04 /
Yano, Hiroyuki 85 Town View Drive Wappingers Falls N.Y. 12590 / US | 05 /
Kodera, Masako c/o Thosiba Corporation Horikawacho Works 72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP | 06 /
Shigeta, Atsushi c/o Toshiba Corporation Horikawacho Works 72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP | 07 /
Ishii, You c/o Ebara Corporation 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 08 /
Kimura, Norio c/o Ebara Corporation 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 09 /
Hirose, Masayoshi c/o Ebara Corporation 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 10 /
Ikeda, Yukio c/o Ebara Corporation 11-1, Haneda Asahi-cho Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [1994/22] | Representative(s) | Geyer, Ulrich F. Wagner & Geyer Partnerschaft mbB Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 80538 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/22] | Geyer, Ulrich F., Dr. Dipl.-Phys. WAGNER & GEYER, Patentanwälte, Gewürzmühlstrasse 5 D-80538 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 93118936.9 | 24.11.1993 | [1994/22] | Priority number, date | JP19920341162 | 27.11.1992 Original published format: JP 34116292 | [1994/22] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0599299 | Date: | 01.06.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/22] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0599299 | Date: | 04.02.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/06] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.03.1994 | Classification | IPC: | B24B37/04 | [1994/22] | CPC: |
B24B37/102 (EP,US);
B24B39/00 (KR);
B24B37/30 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [1994/22] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Gerät zum Polieren eines Werkstückes | [1994/22] | English: | Method and apparatus for polishing a workpiece | [1994/22] | French: | Méthode et appareil pour polir une pièce | [1994/22] | Examination procedure | 29.11.1994 | Examination requested [1995/04] | 04.04.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 14.10.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.02.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.06.1997 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 29.09.1997 | Fee for grant paid | 29.09.1997 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.11.1998 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/04] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.11.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.11.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.11.1997 | 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 | NL | 04.02.1998 | [2003/08] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JPS60249568 ; | [A]US1491103 (HOKE WILLIAM E) [A] 1,5,6,8,9,11,13 * column W *; | [XA]US4373991 (BANKS EDWARD L) [X] 1,4-6,8,9,11,13 * the whole document * [A] 2,3,7,12; | [A]US4502252 (IWABUCHI MASABURO [JP]) [A] 1,8,10,13* column A; figure 1 * | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19860507), vol. 10, no. 122, Database accession no. (M - 476)<2179>, & JP60249568 A 19851210 (SUMITOMO DENKI KOGYO K.K.) [X] 1,2,5,8,13 * abstract * |