EP0811865 - Illumination system and exposure apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.07.2004 Database last updated on 18.01.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 02.07.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 18.08.2004 [2004/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
Former [1997/50] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Mizouchi, Satoru Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1997/50] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1997/50] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 97303727.8 | 02.06.1997 | [1997/50] | Priority number, date | JP19960163891 | 04.06.1996 Original published format: JP 16389196 | [1997/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0811865 | Date: | 10.12.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/50] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0811865 | Date: | 02.09.1998 | [1998/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0811865 | Date: | 27.08.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/35] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.07.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G02B19/00, G03F7/20, F21V5/00 | [1997/50] | CPC: |
G03F7/70066 (EP,KR,US);
F21V5/048 (EP,KR,US);
G02B19/0014 (EP,KR,US);
G02B19/0047 (EP,KR,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, GB, NL [1999/19] |
Former [1997/50] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Beleuchtungssystem und Belichtungsapparat | [1997/50] | English: | Illumination system and exposure apparatus | [1997/50] | French: | Système d'illumination et appareil d'exposition | [1997/50] | Examination procedure | 14.01.1999 | Examination requested [1999/11] | 03.03.1999 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 03.03.1999 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 06.06.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT | 16.06.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) BE, CH, DK, ES, FI, FR, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, PT, SE | 22.04.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 30.10.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.02.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.06.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 06.06.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.05.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/34] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 28.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 18.06.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 06.04.1999 | AT   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | BE   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | CH   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | DK   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | ES   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | FI   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | FR   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | IE   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | IT   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | PT   M01   Not yet paid | 06.04.1999 | SE   M01   Not yet paid |
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