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EP0936603
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0936603
| EP0936603 - Optical head [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.07.2003 Database last updated on 06.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Hitachi, Ltd. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/33] | For all designated states Hitachi, Ltd. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Shimano, Takeshi 16-10-201, Higashitokorozawawada-3-chome Tokorozawa-shi / JP | 02 /
Nakamura, Shigeru 11-12, Nishikicho-4-chome Tachikawa-shi / JP | 03 /
Ohnishi, Kunikazu 17-12-1415, Take-3-chome Yokosuka-shi / JP | 04 /
Inoue, Masayuki 7-18, Nakatakita-1-chome Izumi-ku, Yokohama-shi / JP | 05 /
Fukui, Yukio 24-30-501, Haramachida-4-chome Machida-shi / JP | [1999/33] | Representative(s) | Calderbank, Thomas Roger Mewburn Ellis LLP City Tower 40 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5DE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/33] | Calderbank, Thomas Roger MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | Application number, filing date | 99301040.4 | 12.02.1999 | [1999/33] | Priority number, date | JP19980032559 | 16.02.1998 Original published format: JP 3255998 | [1999/33] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0936603 | Date: | 18.08.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/33] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0936603 | Date: | 06.10.1999 | [1999/40] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0936603 | Date: | 18.09.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/38] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.08.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G11B7/12, G11B7/135, G11B7/09, G11B7/095, G11B7/13 | [1999/41] | CPC: |
G11B7/1353 (EP,KR,US);
G11B7/09 (KR);
G11B7/00718 (EP,US);
G11B7/094 (EP,US);
G11B7/0941 (EP,US);
G11B7/0943 (EP,US);
G11B7/131 (EP,US);
G11B7/1367 (EP,US);
G11B7/1381 (EP,US);
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| Former IPC [1999/33] | G11B7/12 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [2000/24] |
| Former [1999/33] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Optischer Kopf | [1999/33] | English: | Optical head | [1999/33] | French: | Tête optique | [1999/33] | Examination procedure | 15.12.1999 | Examination requested [2000/06] | 31.01.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.06.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.11.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.12.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.10.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.03.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 03.06.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 03.06.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP02005573.7 / EP1220213 | Opposition(s) | 19.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.02.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.02.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | 18.09.2002 | NL | 18.09.2002 | DE | 19.12.2002 | GB | 12.02.2003 | [2006/14] |
| Former [2004/22] | NL | 18.09.2002 | |
| DE | 19.12.2002 | ||
| GB | 12.02.2003 | ||
| Former [2003/46] | NL | 18.09.2002 | |
| DE | 19.12.2002 | ||
| Former [2003/22] | NL | 18.09.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US4750162 (TAJIMA OSAMU [JP]) [X] 1,2,5,9 * column 15, line 16 - column 18, line 2; figures 13-15 *; | [A]US5440536 (ITO NOBORU [JP], et al) [A] 6,11 * column 3, line 35 - column 10, line 66; figures 1A,B,2-10 *; | [A]EP0762396 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP [JP]) [A] 1-5,7,10 * page 10, line 25 - page 14, line 30; figures 5-7 *; | [A]US5408452 (SAKEMOTO AKITO [JP], et al) [A] 8,11 * column 3, line 41 - column 4, line 29; figures 1A,2,5A,B * * column 6, line 14 - column 8, line 25 *; | [A]US4970710 (LEE WAI-HON [US]) [A] 1-14 * column 4, line 31 - column 8, line 41; figures 1-7 *; | [DX]JPH04168631 | [DX] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19921005), vol. 016, no. 476, Database accession no. (P - 1430), & JP04168631 A 19920616 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP) [DX] 1,2,5,9 * abstract * |