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EP0546097
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| EP0546097 - APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRACE COMPONENT ANALYSIS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 07.09.2001 Database last updated on 17.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 09.01.2008 [2008/02] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY A-268 Abraham Smoot Building Provo, UT 84602 / US | [1993/24] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
LEE, Milton, L. 2400 North 180 West Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 / US | 02 /
SIN, Chung, Hang 124 South Wymount Terrace, 3A Provo, UT 84604 / US | [1993/24] | Representative(s) | MacDougall, Donald Carmichael, et al Marks & Clerk LLP Aurora 120 Bothwell Street Glasgow G2 7JS / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/24] | MacDougall, Donald Carmichael, et al Cruikshank & Fairweather 19 Royal Exchange Square Glasgow G1 3AE, Scotland / GB | Application number, filing date | 91917594.3 | 28.08.1991 | [1993/24] | WO1991US06153 | Priority number, date | US19900574638 | 29.08.1990 Original published format: US 574638 | [1993/24] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9204728 | Date: | 19.03.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/07] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0546097 | Date: | 16.06.1993 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 19.03.1992 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1993/24] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0546097 | Date: | 02.11.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/44] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 19.03.1992 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.02.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H01J49/40, H01J49/04, H01J49/16 | [1995/15] | CPC: |
H01J49/401 (EP,US);
H01J49/40 (KR)
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| Former IPC [1993/24] | H01J49/40 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1993/24] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR SPURENANALYSE | [1993/24] | English: | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRACE COMPONENT ANALYSIS | [1993/24] | French: | APPAREIL ET PROCEDE D'ANALYSES DE CONSTITUANTS A L'ETAT DE TRACES | [1993/24] | Entry into regional phase | 26.02.1993 | National basic fee paid | 26.02.1993 | Search fee paid | 26.02.1993 | Designation fee(s) paid | 26.02.1993 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 27.03.1992 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: DE | 26.02.1993 | Examination requested [1993/24] | 25.01.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.05.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.10.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 29.04.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.09.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 03.02.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 06.03.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.06.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 14.06.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 03.08.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/43] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.08.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.08.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.08.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 27.08.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 08.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 26.08.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 11.08.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 25.08.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 10 |
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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 | 02.11.2000 | IT | 02.11.2000 | [2008/02] |
| Former [2006/14] | FR | 02.11.2000 | |
| Former [2002/02] | FR | 30.03.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE3636954 (HITACHI LTD [JP])[A] 1,11,34; | [A]US4755344 (FRIEDMAN LEWIS [US], et al) [A] 1,11,34 * column 5, line 17 - line 53; figure 1 * | [A] - J. Q. SEARCY, "A SUPERSONIC MOLECULAR BEAM METASTABLE ATOM SOURCE INITIATED BY DIRECT DISCHARGE", REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS., NEW YORK US, (1974), vol. 45, no. 4, pages 589 - 590 [A] 1,11,34 * page 1, column L, paragraph 2; figures 1,2,3 * | [A] - LIANG LI , D. LUBMANN, "PULSED LASER DESORPTION METHOD FOR VOLATILIZING THERMALLY LABILE MOLECULES FOR SUPERSONIC JET SPECTROSCOPY", REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS., NEW YORK US, (198804), vol. 59, no. 4, pages 557 - 561 [A] 1,11,34 * page 557, column R, paragraph L - page 558, column L; figure 1 * | International search | [A]US3621240 (COHEN MARTIN J, et al); | [A]US4072862 (MAMYRIN BORIS ALEXANDROVICH, et al); | [A]US4390784 (BROWNING DAVID R, et al); | [A]US4458149 (MUGA M LUIS [US]); | [A]US4667100 (LAGNA WILLIAM M [US]); | [A]US4731532 (FREY RUEDIGER [DE], et al) |