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EP0627620
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| EP0627620 - Method for measuring internal information in scattering medium and apparatus for the same [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.07.2003 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 18.07.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 03.09.2003 [2003/36] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. 1126-1 Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/49] | For all designated states HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. 1126-1 Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi Shizuoka-ken / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tsuchiya, Yutaka, c/o Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. 1126-1, Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken / JP | [1994/49] | Representative(s) | Burke, Steven David, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/49] | Burke, Steven David, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co. 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 94303966.9 | 02.06.1994 | [1994/49] | Priority number, date | JP19930132211 | 02.06.1993 Original published format: JP 13221193 | JP19940021400 | 18.02.1994 Original published format: JP 2140094 | [1994/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0627620 | Date: | 07.12.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0627620 | Date: | 11.09.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/37] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 05.09.1994 | Classification | IPC: | G01N21/47, A61B5/00 | [1994/49] | CPC: |
G01N21/49 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1994/49] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Messung innerer Eigenschaften eines Streumediums | [1994/49] | English: | Method for measuring internal information in scattering medium and apparatus for the same | [1994/49] | French: | Procédé et dispositif pour déterminer une information interne dans un milieu diffusant | [1994/49] | Examination procedure | 26.04.1995 | Examination requested [1995/26] | 15.07.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 01.02.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.06.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 13.10.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.12.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.03.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 24.06.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 24.06.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 12.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/36] | Request for further processing for: | 01.02.1999 | Request for further processing filed | 01.02.1999 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 24.02.1999 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.06.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.06.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 15.06.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 13.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 12.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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