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EP0918235
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| EP0918235 - Axial refractive index distributed lens [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.05.2005 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.07.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 09.08.2006 [2006/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi Osaka 541-8559 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [2004/27] | For all designated states Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka 541-8559 / JP | ||
| Former [1999/21] | For all designated states NIPPON SHEET GLASS CO., LTD. 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka 541 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Yamaguchi, Jun c/o Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka / JP | 02 /
Kittaka, Shigeo c/o Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka / JP | 03 /
Shiotani, Yoshinori c/o Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd 5-11, Dosho-machi 3-chome, Chuo-ku Osaka-shi, Osaka / JP | [1999/21] | Representative(s) | Hoffmann Eitle Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB Arabellastrasse 30 81925 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/21] | HOFFMANN - EITLE Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Arabellastrasse 4 81925 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 98121550.2 | 17.11.1998 | [1999/21] | Priority number, date | JP19970319843 | 20.11.1997 Original published format: JP 31984397 | [1999/21] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0918235 | Date: | 26.05.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/21] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0918235 | Date: | 16.06.1999 | [1999/24] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0918235 | Date: | 30.06.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/27] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.05.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G02B3/00, C03C21/00 | [1999/21] | CPC: |
G02B3/0087 (EP,US);
C03C21/005 (EP,US);
C03C3/066 (EP,US);
C03C3/093 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2000/08] |
| Former [1999/21] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Linse mit axialem Brechnungsindexgradient | [1999/21] | English: | Axial refractive index distributed lens | [1999/21] | French: | Lentille à gradient axial d'indice de réfraction. | [1999/21] | Examination procedure | 12.10.1999 | Examination requested [1999/49] | 28.08.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 20.12.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.05.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.08.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.01.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.04.2004 | Fee for grant paid | 30.04.2004 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.03.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/25] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.11.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.11.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.11.2003 | 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 | FR | 30.06.2004 | [2006/32] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US3873408 (HENSLER JOSEPH R) [X] 1 * column 2, line 35 - line 50 * * column 4, line 25 - line 53 * * tables 1,3 *; | [A]EP0447678 (CORNING INC [US]) [A] 1 * abstract * * page 4, column 20, paragraph 27 * * page 5, line 9 - line 23 * * table 3 *; | [A]US4952037 (OIKAWA MASAHIRO [JP], et al) [A] 1 * column 9, line 41 - line 48 * * table 6 *; | [A]US5139557 (KITTAKA SHIGEO [JP], et al) [A] 1 * page 1, line 10 - line 57 * * table 1 * * figures 1-22 *; | [A]US5004707 (ROSS LUDWIG [DE], et al) [A] 1 * claim 1 * * examples 1-6 *; | [A]US4971423 (NAKATA KOHEI [JP], et al) [A] 1 * example 2 * * claim 5 *; | [A]US4756733 (HOUDE-WALTER SUSAN [US], et al) [A] 1 * abstract *; | [A]DE3803420 (JENAER GLASWERK VEB [DD]) [A] 1 * abstract * * table 1 *; | [DA]JPS62100451 ; | [DA]JPS61261238 | [DA] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19871014), vol. 011, no. 315, Database accession no. (C - 451), & JP62100451 A 19870509 (HOYA CORP) [DA] 1 * abstract * | [DA] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19870417), vol. 011, no. 124, Database accession no. (C - 416), & JP61261238 A 19861119 (HOYA CORP) [DA] 1 * abstract * |