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EP0678920
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0678920 - Semiconductor device with mesa structure [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.12.2003 Database last updated on 26.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states GENERAL SEMICONDUCTOR, Inc. 10 Melville Park Road Melville, NY 11747-9023 / US | [1999/18] |
| Former [1995/43] | For all designated states GENERAL INSTRUMENT CORPORATION 2200 Byberry Road Hatboro, Pennsylvania 19040 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Einthoven, Willem G. 485 Township Line Road Belle Mead, New Jersey 08502 / US | [1995/43] | Representative(s) | Allam, Peter Clerk Lloyd Wise Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street London WC1A 1LW / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/43] | Allam, Peter Clerk LLOYD WISE, TREGEAR & CO. Norman House 105-109 Strand London WC2R 0AE / GB | Application number, filing date | 95302441.1 | 12.04.1995 | [1995/43] | Priority number, date | US19940230299 | 20.04.1994 Original published format: US 230299 | US19950406515 | 17.03.1995 Original published format: US 406515 | [1995/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0678920 | Date: | 25.10.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0678920 | Date: | 29.01.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/05] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 10.07.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H01L29/06, H01L21/308 | [1995/43] | CPC: |
H10D8/01 (EP,US);
H01L21/302 (KR);
H01L21/3083 (EP,US);
H10D62/104 (EP,US);
H10D62/405 (EP,US);
H10D8/045 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1995/43] | Title | German: | Halbleiteranordnung mit Mesastruktur | [1995/43] | English: | Semiconductor device with mesa structure | [1995/43] | French: | Dispositif semi-conducteur à structure de mesa | [1995/43] | Examination procedure | 02.04.1996 | Examination requested [1996/22] | 14.01.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 16.07.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.03.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08) | 14.03.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.12.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 26.07.2001 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 02.10.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.02.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.08.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.11.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 12.11.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 30.10.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/04] | Request for further processing for: | 02.10.2001 | Request for further processing filed | 02.10.2001 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 17.10.2001 | Decision despatched | 14.03.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 14.03.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 10.04.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.03.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.03.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 06.04.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.03.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 21.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 22.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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 | IT | 29.01.2003 | [2008/06] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US3765969 (KRAGNESS R, et al); | [A]EP0075103 (SIEMENS AG [DE]); | [A]EP0217780 (GEN INSTRUMENT CORP [US]); | [DA]US4740477 (EINTHOVEN WILLEM G [US], et al); | [DA]US4891685 (EINTHOVEN WILLEM G [US], et al); | [DA]US5010023 (EINTHOVEN WILLEM G [US], et al) | Examination | EP0658927 |