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EP0872301
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0872301
| EP0872301 - Ultrasonic welding of copper foil [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.05.2003 Database last updated on 09.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.02.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 19.03.2008 [2008/12] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states MITSUI MINING & SMELTING CO., LTD. 1-1, Nihonbashi-Muromachi 1-chome, Chuo-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/43] | For all designated states Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. 1-1, Nihonbashi-Muromachi 1-chome, Chuo-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Fisher, Brian K. P.O. Box 522 Redmond, WA 98073 / US | 02 /
Fisher, Albert R. 406-239th Ave. N.E. Redmond, WA 98053 / US | [1998/43] | Representative(s) | Modiano, Guido, et al Modiano, Josif, Pisanty & Staub Ltd., Baaderstrasse 3 80469 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/43] | Modiano, Guido, Dr.-Ing., et al Modiano, Josif, Pisanty & Staub, Baaderstrasse 3 80469 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 98106907.3 | 16.04.1998 | [1998/43] | Priority number, date | US19970838272 | 17.04.1997 Original published format: US 838272 | [1998/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0872301 | Date: | 21.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0872301 | Date: | 10.07.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/28] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.07.1998 | Classification | IPC: | B23K20/10 | [1998/43] | CPC: |
B23K20/103 (EP,US);
B23K20/227 (KR);
B23K20/10 (EP,US);
H05K3/025 (EP,US);
B23K2101/18 (KR);
B23K2103/12 (EP,US);
H05K2201/0355 (EP,US);
H05K2203/0152 (EP,US);
H05K2203/068 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, DE, ES, FI, FR, GB, IT, LU, NL, SE [1999/47] |
| Former [1999/44] | DE, FI, FR, IT, LU, SE | ||
| Former [1999/43] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, GB, LI, NL | ||
| Former [1999/26] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, LI | ||
| Former [1998/43] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Ultraschallschweissen von Kupferfolie | [1998/43] | English: | Ultrasonic welding of copper foil | [1998/43] | French: | Soudage par ultrason de feuille de cuivre | [1998/43] | Examination procedure | 30.11.1998 | Examination requested [1999/04] | 12.01.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.04.1999 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 19.07.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.02.2000 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) CH, CY, DK, GR, IE, LI, MC, PT | 04.09.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 30.01.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.02.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 27.03.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.04.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 08.04.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 11.04.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/27] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.02.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 08.10.1999 | CH M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | CY M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | DK M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | GR M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | IE M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | MC M01 Not yet paid | 08.10.1999 | PT M01 Not yet paid |
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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 | AT | 10.07.2002 | BE | 10.07.2002 | FI | 10.07.2002 | IT | 10.07.2002 | NL | 10.07.2002 | SE | 10.10.2002 | ES | 30.01.2003 | [2008/12] |
| Former [2005/21] | AT | 10.07.2002 | |
| BE | 10.07.2002 | ||
| FI | 10.07.2002 | ||
| NL | 10.07.2002 | ||
| SE | 10.10.2002 | ||
| ES | 30.01.2003 | ||
| Former [2004/04] | AT | 10.07.2002 | |
| BE | 10.07.2002 | ||
| NL | 10.07.2002 | ||
| SE | 10.10.2002 | ||
| ES | 30.01.2003 | ||
| Former [2003/48] | AT | 10.07.2002 | |
| BE | 10.07.2002 | ||
| NL | 10.07.2002 | ||
| SE | 10.10.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/31] | AT | 10.07.2002 | |
| NL | 10.07.2002 | ||
| SE | 10.10.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/09] | NL | 10.07.2002 | |
| SE | 10.10.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/03] | SE | 10.10.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]GB1217104 (SIEMENS AG [DE]) [X] 1-16 * page 1, line 37 - line 65; figure 1 *; | [A]US5082160 (LEIGH RICHARD W [US]) [A] 1-12 * column 1, line 35 - column 2, line 60 * * column 3, line 49 - line 61 *; | [DA]US5153050 (JOHNSTON JAMES A [US]) [DA] 1,12* abstract * |