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EP0701270
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| EP0701270 - Methods and apparatus for vacuum sputtering [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 07.01.2000 Database last updated on 16.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THE BOC GROUP, INC. 575 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/11] | For all designated states THE BOC GROUP, INC. 575 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sieck, Peter A. 4329 Sonoma Mountain Road Santa Rosa, California 95404 / US | [1996/11] | Representative(s) | Bousfield, Roger James, et al The BOC Group plc Chertsey Road Windlesham Surrey GU20 6HJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/11] | Bousfield, Roger James, et al The BOC Group plc Chertsey Road Windlesham Surrey GU20 6HJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 95306157.9 | 04.09.1995 | [1996/11] | Priority number, date | US19940301114 | 06.09.1994 Original published format: US 301114 | [1996/11] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0701270 | Date: | 13.03.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/11] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0701270 | Date: | 03.03.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/09] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.01.1996 | Classification | IPC: | H01J37/34 | [1996/11] | CPC: |
H01J37/3438 (EP,KR,US);
H01J37/3405 (EP,KR,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1996/11] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Gerät zur Vakuumzerstaubung | [1996/11] | English: | Methods and apparatus for vacuum sputtering | [1996/11] | French: | Méthodes et appareil de pulvérisation sans vide | [1996/11] | Examination procedure | 30.08.1996 | Examination requested [1996/44] | 06.06.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 16.12.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.06.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 21.08.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.10.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 22.10.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 04.12.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/08] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.08.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | BE | 03.03.1999 | ES | 03.03.1999 | FR | 03.03.1999 | IT | 03.03.1999 | NL | 03.03.1999 | SE | 03.03.1999 | DK | 03.06.1999 | LU | 04.09.1999 | [2008/06] |
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| Former [1999/36] | NL | 03.03.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]JPH062123 ; | [Y]WO9201081 (BOC GROUP INC [US]) [Y] 1,4,7,8 * page 8, line 25 - page 14, line 16; figure 1 *; | [A]WO9209718 (VIRATEC THIN FILMS INC [US]) [A] 1,4,7,8 * page 8, line 5 - page 9, line 17; figures 1-3 * | [Y] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19940408), vol. 018, no. 201, Database accession no. (C - 1188), & JP06002123 A 19940111 (MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD) [Y] 1,4,7,8 * abstract * | by applicant | WO9201081 | WO9209718 |