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EP0938007 - LD/PD module and LED/PD module [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.03.2005
Database last updated on 12.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip21.03.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 23.04.2008  [2008/17]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
5-33, Kitahama 4-chome, Chuo-ku
Osaka / JP
[N/P]
Former [1999/34]For all designated states
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
5-33, Kitahama 4-chome, Chuo-ku
Osaka / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Nakanishi, Hiromi
Osaka Works of Sumitomo Elec. Ind. Ltd.
1-3, Shimaya 1-chome, Konohana-ku, Osaka / JP
02 / Kuhara, Yoshiki
Osaka Works of Sumitomo Elec. Ind. Ltd.
1-3, Shimaya 1-chome, Konohana-ku, Osaka / JP
[1999/34]
Representative(s)Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al
Boult Wade Tennant
Verulam Gardens
70 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8BT / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/34]Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al
BOULT WADE TENNANT, 27 Furnival Street
London EC4A 1PQ / GB
Application number, filing date99301020.612.02.1999
[1999/34]
Priority number, dateJP1998005880623.02.1998         Original published format: JP 5880698
[1999/34]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0938007
Date:25.08.1999
Language:EN
[1999/34]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0938007
Date:15.11.2000
[2000/46]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0938007
Date:06.05.2004
Language:EN
[2004/19]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP02.10.2000
ClassificationIPC:G02B6/42
[1999/34]
CPC:
G02B6/4246 (EP,US); G02B6/4204 (EP,US); G02B6/4214 (EP,US);
G02B6/4292 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL,   SE [2001/31]
Former [1999/34]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:LD/PD Modul und LED/PD Modul[1999/34]
English:LD/PD module and LED/PD module[1999/34]
French:Module comprenant une diode laser et une photodiode et module comprenant une diode électroluminescente et une photodiode[1999/34]
Examination procedure27.11.2000Examination requested  [2001/04]
20.02.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
27.06.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
30.10.2003Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.03.2004Fee for grant paid
02.03.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)08.02.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/17]
Fees paidRenewal fee
04.12.2000Renewal fee patent year 03
03.12.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
16.12.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
04.12.2003Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT06.05.2004
NL06.05.2004
SE06.08.2004
[2008/17]
Former [2006/13]NL06.05.2004
SE06.08.2004
Former [2004/52]SE06.08.2004
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 [A]US5719978  (KAKII TOSHIAKI [JP], et al) [A] 1,17 * abstract * * column 15, line 17 - line 24 *;
 [A]  - UCHIDA T ET AL, "OPTICAL SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY", IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS,JP,INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS INFORMATION AND COMM. ENG. TOKYO, (1997), vol. E80-C, no. 1, ISSN 0916-8524, pages 81 - 87, XP000740608 [A] 1,17 * the whole document *
 [A]  - UCHIDA N ET AL, "LOW-COST HYBRID WDM MODULE CONSISTING OF A SPOT-SIZE CONVERTER INTEGRATED LASER DIODE AND A WAVEGUIDE PHOTODIODE ON A PLC PLATFORMFOR ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEMS", IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS,JP,INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS INFORMATION AND COMM. ENG. TOKYO, (1997), vol. E80-C, no. 1, ISSN 0916-8524, pages 88 - 97, XP000740609 [A] 1,17 * the whole document *
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