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EP0974070
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0974070 - METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTACT LENSES [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.07.2002 Database last updated on 10.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.07.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 21.08.2002 [2002/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED One Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester New York 14604-2701 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/04] | For all designated states BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED One Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, New York 14604-2701 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
APPLETON, William, J. 521 Hoffman Road Rochester, NY 14622 / US | 02 /
CRONK, William, B., IV Apartment T-248,2700 North Brook Drive McKinney, TX 75070 / US | 03 /
ALTOBELLI, Kathleen, M. 1171 Sherbrooke Lane Rochester, NY 14624 / US | 04 /
GABRIEL, Emily, Abrams 39 Saddle Brook Pittsford, NY 14534 / US | 05 /
MISITI, Paul, D. 18 Vick Park B Rochester, NY 14607 / US | [2000/04] | Representative(s) | Bowman, Paul Alan, et al Marks & Clerk LLP 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/04] | Bowman, Paul Alan, et al LLOYD WISE, TREGEAR & CO., Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1LW / GB | Application number, filing date | 98914455.5 | 02.04.1998 | [2000/04] | WO1998US06564 | Priority number, date | US19970043908P | 07.04.1997 Original published format: US 43908 P | [2000/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9845750 | Date: | 15.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/41] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0974070 | Date: | 26.01.2000 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 15.10.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2000/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0974070 | Date: | 29.08.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/35] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 15.10.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G02C7/04, G02C7/02 | [2000/04] | CPC: |
G02C7/048 (EP,US);
G02C7/04 (EP,KR,US);
G02C7/021 (EP,US);
G02C2202/08 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT [2000/04] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN ZUR IDENTIFIEZIERUNG DER KONTAKTLINSENCHARAKTERISTIKEN | [2000/04] | English: | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF CONTACT LENSES | [2000/04] | French: | PROCEDE D'IDENTIFICATION DES CARACTERISTIQUES DE LENTILLES DE CONTACT | [2000/04] | Entry into regional phase | 04.10.1999 | National basic fee paid | 04.10.1999 | Designation fee(s) paid | 04.10.1999 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 06.11.1998 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 04.10.1999 | Examination requested [2000/04] | 08.12.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 08.03.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.05.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 04.05.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 30.05.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/34] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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