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EP1065658 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING OPTICAL INFORMATION, APPARATUS FOR RECORDING/REPRODUCING OPTICAL INFORMATION, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  06.08.2010
Database last updated on 01.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip01.10.2010Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): NL
published on 03.11.2010  [2010/44]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Optware Corporation
7th Floor, Nisso 13th Bldg., 5-1 Shinyokohama 2-chome, Kohoku-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 222-0033 / JP
[2009/40]
Former [2002/01]For all designated states
Optware Corporation
7th Floor, Nisso 13th Bldg., 5-1 Shinyokohama 2-chome, Kohoku-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 222-0033 / JP
Former [2001/09]For all designated states
Optware Corporation
405, 22-23, Ebisu 1-chome, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0013 / JP
Former [2001/01]For all designated states
Horimai, Hideyoshi
Room 301, 2032-2, Ooka
Numazu-shi, Shizuoka 410-0022 / JP
For all designated states
Optware Corporation
405, 22-23, Ebisu 1-chome, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 150-0013 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Horimai, Hideyoshi
Room 301, 2032-2, Ooka
Numazu-shi, Shizuoka 410-022 / JP
[2001/01]
Representative(s)Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
Leopoldstrasse 4
80802 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2001/01]Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät
Maximilianstrasse 58
80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date99906494.226.02.1999
[2001/01]
WO1999JP00896
Priority number, dateJP1998004675427.02.1998         Original published format: JP 4675498
JP1998014232108.05.1998         Original published format: JP 14232198
JP1998014232208.05.1998         Original published format: JP 14232298
JP1998014232308.05.1998         Original published format: JP 14232398
[2001/01]
Filing languageJA
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9944195
Date:02.09.1999
Language:EN
[1999/35]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP1065658
Date:03.01.2001
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 02.09.1999 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2001/01]
Type: A8 Corrected patent application 
No.:EP1065658
Date:25.04.2001
[2001/17]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1065658
Date:30.09.2009
Language:EN
[2009/40]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:JP02.09.1999
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP18.12.2006
ClassificationIPC:G11B7/00
[2007/03]
CPC:
G11B7/00781 (EP,US); G11B7/0065 (EP,KR,US); G03H1/0465 (EP,KR,US);
G03H1/12 (EP,KR,US); G11B7/00745 (EP,US); G11B7/08 (KR);
G11B7/085 (EP,US); G11B7/08582 (EP,US); G11B7/0938 (EP,US);
G11B7/127 (EP,US); G11B7/128 (EP,US); G11B7/1356 (EP,US);
G11B7/1365 (EP,US); G11B7/14 (EP,US); G11B7/24 (EP,US);
G11B7/24041 (KR); G11B7/24044 (KR); G03H2001/0415 (EP,US);
G03H2001/267 (EP,US); G03H2001/2675 (EP,US); G03H2210/12 (KR);
G03H2210/54 (EP,US); G03H2250/42 (EP,US); G11B2007/0013 (EP,US);
G11B2220/2537 (KR); G11B7/24038 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [2001/01]G11B7/00, G11B7/135, G03H1/22, G03H1/26, G11C13/04
Designated contracting statesDE,   FI,   FR,   GB,   NL [2001/01]
TitleGerman:VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR OPTISCHE INFORMATIONEN, VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR WIEDERGABE VON OPTISCHEN INFORMATIONEN, VORRICHTUNG ZUR AUFZEICHNUNG, WIEDERGABE VON OPTISCHEN INFORMATIONEN SOWIE OPTISCHES INFORMATIONSAUFZEICHNUNGSMEDIUM[2009/14]
English:METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING OPTICAL INFORMATION, APPARATUS FOR RECORDING/REPRODUCING OPTICAL INFORMATION, AND OPTICAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM[2001/01]
French:PROCEDE ET APPAREIL D'INFORMATIONS OPTIQUES, PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DE REPRODUCTION D'INFORMATIONS OPTIQUES, APPAREIL POUR ENREGISTRER/REPRODUIRE DES INFORMATIONS OPTIQUES, ET SUPPORT D'ENREGISTREMENT D'INFORMATIONS OPTIQUES[2001/01]
Former [2001/01]VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR OPTISCHE INFORMATIONEN, VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR WIEDERGABE VON OPTISCHEN INFORMATIONEN, VORRICHTUNG ZUR AUFZEICHNUNG, WIEDERGABE VON OPTISCHEN INFORMATIONEN SOWIE OPTISCHES INFORMATIONSAIFZEICHNUNGSMEDIUM
Entry into regional phase27.09.2000Translation filed 
27.09.2000National basic fee paid 
27.09.2000Search fee paid 
27.09.2000Designation fee(s) paid 
27.09.2000Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure26.07.1999Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: JP
27.09.2000Examination requested  [2001/01]
23.04.2007Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
30.08.2007Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.02.2008Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
31.07.2008Reply to a communication from the examining division
31.03.2009Communication of intention to grant the patent
28.07.2009Fee for grant paid
28.07.2009Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)01.07.2010No opposition filed within time limit [2010/36]
Fees paidRenewal fee
28.02.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
27.02.2002Renewal fee patent year 04
27.02.2003Renewal fee patent year 05
20.02.2004Renewal fee patent year 06
25.02.2005Renewal fee patent year 07
23.02.2006Renewal fee patent year 08
27.02.2007Renewal fee patent year 09
28.02.2008Renewal fee patent year 10
26.02.2009Renewal fee patent year 11
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFI30.09.2009
NL30.09.2009
[2010/44]
Former [2010/19]FI30.09.2009
Documents cited:Search[X]US5627664  (TRISNADI JAHJA I [US]) [X] 1,2,4-8,10-13,15,16,19-21,23-25,27,28,30-38,40-45 * column 2, lines 30-67 * * column 3, line 26 - column 4, line 34 * * figure 1 *;
 [X]JPH04267283  (SEIKO EPSON CORP) [X] 1,6,7,11,12,15,16,19,20,23,24,27,28,38,44 * abstract *;
 [XA]JPH09305978  (SONY CORP) [X] 46-50 * abstract * [A] 1-45;
 [PX]JPH10124872  (SONY CORP) [PX] 1-45 * the whole document *;
 US5917798  [ ] (HORIMAI HIDEYOSHI [JP], et al);
 [A]US5440669  (RAKULJIC GEORGE A [US], et al) [A] 1-45 * the whole document *;
 [A]JPH02163789  (SONY CORP) [A] 2,8,13,17,21,25,36,42 * abstract *;
 [A]  - RAKULJIC G A ET AL, "OPTICAL DATA STORAGE BY USING ORTHOGONAL WAVELENGTH-MULTIPLEXED VOLUME HOLOGRAMS", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (19921015), vol. 17, no. 20, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 1471 - 1473, XP000307542 [A] 1-45 * the whole document *
 [A]  - HEANUE J F ET AL, "SPARSE SELECTION OF REFERENCE BEAMS FOR WAVELENGTH- AND ANGULAR-MULTIPLEXED VOLUME HOLOGRAPHY", JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - A, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, US, (19950801), vol. 12, no. 8, ISSN 1084-7529, pages 1671 - 1676, XP000515593 [A] 1-45 * the whole document *
 [DA]  - HEANUE J F ET AL, "ENCRYPTED HOLOGRAPHIC DATA STORAGE BASED ON ORTHOGONAL-PHASE-CODE MULTIPLEXING", APPLIED OPTICS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (19950910), vol. 34, no. 26, ISSN 0003-6935, pages 6012 - 6015, XP000523027 [DA] 1-45 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.34.006012
 [DA]  - HEANUE J F ET AL, "RECALL OF LINEAR COMBINATIONS OF STORED DATA PAGES BASED ON PHASE-CODE MULTIPLEXING IN VOLUME HOLOGRAPHY", OPTICS LETTERS, OSA, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC, US, (19940715), vol. 19, no. 14, ISSN 0146-9592, pages 1079 - 1081, XP000455039 [DA] 1-45 * the whole document *
 [A]  - YAGYU E ET AL, "Wavelength multiplexed holograms by persistent spectral hole burning", PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPIE, SPIE, BELLINGHAM, VA, US, (199704), vol. 3011, ISSN 0277-786X, pages 333 - 342, XP007901391 [A] 1-45 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.271365
International search[XP]JPH10124872  (SONY CORP);
 [XP]JPH10302293  (SONY CORP)
by applicantUS5627664
 JPH04267283
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