EP0903694 - Real-time PC based volume rendering system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.12.2004 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.02.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT, PT | published on 19.03.2008 [2008/12] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states TeraRecon, Inc., A Delaware Corporation 2955 Campus Drive, Suite 325 San Mateo, CA 94403 / US | [2001/31] |
Former [1999/12] | For all designated states MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 2-3, Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8310 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lauer, Hugh, C. 69 Border Road Concord, MA 01742 / US | 02 /
Osborne, Randy B. 33 Wessex Road Newton, Massachusetts 02159 / US | 03 /
Pfister, Hanspeter 60 Park Street Somerville, MA 02143 / US | [1999/12] | Representative(s) | Pfenning, Meinig & Partner mbB Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Theresienhöhe 11a 80339 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1999/12] | Pfenning, Meinig & Partner Mozartstrasse 17 80336 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 98107592.2 | 27.04.1998 | [1999/12] | Priority number, date | US19970905238 | 01.08.1997 Original published format: US 905238 | [1999/12] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0903694 | Date: | 24.03.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0903694 | Date: | 25.02.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/09] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.11.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G06T15/00 | [1999/12] | CPC: |
G06T15/08 (EP,US);
G06T1/60 (EP,US);
G06T15/005 (EP,US);
G06T15/40 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1999/12] | Title | German: | Echt-Zeit PC basiertes Volumendarstellungssystem | [1999/12] | English: | Real-time PC based volume rendering system | [1999/12] | French: | Système en temps réel de rendu de volume à base de PC | [1999/12] | Examination procedure | 24.09.1999 | Examination requested [1999/47] | 12.06.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 13.07.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.06.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.12.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 04.12.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP00125412.7 / EP1081651 | EP00125413.5 / EP1081652 | EP00125414.3 / EP1081653 | Opposition(s) | 26.11.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/07] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.04.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | 25.02.2004 | BE | 25.02.2004 | CY | 25.02.2004 | FI | 25.02.2004 | FR | 25.02.2004 | IT | 25.02.2004 | NL | 25.02.2004 | IE | 27.04.2004 | LU | 27.04.2004 | MC | 30.04.2004 | DK | 25.05.2004 | GR | 25.05.2004 | SE | 25.05.2004 | ES | 05.06.2004 | PT | 25.07.2004 | [2008/12] |
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