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EP1297455 - NETWORK-BASED PHOTOMASK DATA ENTRY INTERFACE AND INSTRUCTION GENERATOR FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASKS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 29.04.2016 Database last updated on 06.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	29.04.2016	Application deemed to be withdrawn	published on 01.06.2016 [2016/22]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states DuPont Photomasks, Inc. 131 Old Settlers Boulevard Round Rock Texas 78664 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2003/14]	For all designated states DuPont Photomasks, Inc. 131 Old Settlers Boulevard Round Rock, Texas 78664 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / COGDELL, Thomas, T. 2200 Canterbury Street Austin, TX 78702 / US
	02 / SCHEPP, Jeffry, S. 1708 Crestline Court Round ROck, TX 78664 / US
	03 / GENTRY, Jan, E. 310 Highland Estates Round Rock, TX 78664 / US
	[2004/02]
Former [2003/25]	01 / COGDELL, Thomas, T. 2200 Canterbury Street Austin, TX 78702 / US
	02 / SCHEPP, Jeffry, S. 1708 Crestline Court Round ROck, TX 78664 / US
	03 / GENTRY, Jan, E. 961 Gardenbrook Ct. Palm Bay, Fl 32909 / US
Former [2003/14]	01 / COGDELL, Thomas, T. 2200 Canterbury Street Austin, TX 78702 / US
	02 / SCHEPP, Jeffry, S. 1708 Crestline Court Round ROck, TX 78664 / US
	03 / GENTRY, Jan, E. 310 Highland Estates Round Rock, TX 78664 / US
Representative(s)	Lawrence, John Barker Brettell LLP 100 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 8QQ / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2008/23]	Lawrence, John Barker Brettell LLP 138 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9PW / GB
Former [2003/14]	Lawrence, John Barker, Brettell 138 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 9PW / GB
Application number, filing date	01952380.2	29.06.2001
	[2003/14]
	WO2001US21020
Priority number, date	US20000610917	05.07.2000 Original published format: US 610917
	[2003/14]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	WO0203141
	Date:	10.01.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/02]
	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP1297455
	Date:	02.04.2003
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 10.01.2002 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2003/14]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	EP	15.08.2002
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/30	[2003/14]
	CPC:	G03F1/00 (EP,US); G03F1/68 (EP,US); G06Q30/02 (EP,US); G06Q30/04 (EP,US); G06Q30/0603 (EP,US); G06Q50/04 (EP,US); (+) H01J2237/31762 (EP,US); Y02P90/30 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [2004/21]
Former [2003/14]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	LT	Not yet paid
	LV	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	RO	Not yet paid
	SI	Not yet paid
Title	German:	NETZWERKBASIERTE EINGABESCHNITTSTELLE VON DATEN ZUR ERSTELLUNG VON PHOTOMASKEN UND GENERATOR VON INSTRUKTIONEN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON PHOTOMASKEN	[2003/14]
	English:	NETWORK-BASED PHOTOMASK DATA ENTRY INTERFACE AND INSTRUCTION GENERATOR FOR MANUFACTURING PHOTOMASKS	[2003/14]
	French:	INTERFACE D'ENTREES DE DONNEES DE MASQUES DE PHOTOGRAVURE BASEE SUR RESEAU ET GENERATEUR D'INSTRUCTIONS DESTINEES A LA FABRICATION DE MASQUES DE PHOTOGRAVURE	[2003/14]
Entry into regional phase	22.01.2003	National basic fee paid
	22.01.2003	Designation fee(s) paid
	22.01.2003	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	18.01.2002	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	22.01.2003	Examination requested [2003/14]
	28.11.2006	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	05.04.2007	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	02.06.2009	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	06.10.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	05.01.2016	Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2016/22]
	26.01.2016	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time [2016/22]
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 28.11.2006
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	22.08.2003	Renewal fee patent year 03
	23.06.2004	Renewal fee patent year 04
	21.06.2005	Renewal fee patent year 05
	28.06.2006	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.06.2007	Renewal fee patent year 07
	25.06.2008	Renewal fee patent year 08
	26.06.2009	Renewal fee patent year 09
	25.06.2010	Renewal fee patent year 10
	27.06.2011	Renewal fee patent year 11
	26.06.2012	Renewal fee patent year 12
	27.06.2013	Renewal fee patent year 13
	30.06.2014	Renewal fee patent year 14
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	30.06.2003	03 M06 Fee paid on 22.08.2003
	30.06.2015	15 M06 Not yet paid
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Cited in	International search	[X]US5933350 (FUJIMOTO SHINICHI [JP], et al) [X] 1-26 * column 1, line 15 - column 2, line 24 * * column 2, line 63 - line 67 * * column 6, line 43 - column 7, line 32 *;
		[X]EP1003087 (D APPLIC COMP IND [FR]) [X] 1-26 * column 1, line 53 - column 3, line 5; figure 1 * * column 3, line 19 - column 4, line 16 * * column 5, line 20 - column 6, line 16 *;
		[A]US5950201 (VAN HUBEN GARY ALAN [US], et al) [A] 1-26 * column 2, line 47 - column 3, line 57 * * column 6, line 54 - line 67 * * column 9, line 40 - column 13, line 22 * * column 27, line 33 - line 51 * * column 28, line 10 - line 39 *;
		[X] - PELTIER J ET AL, "Low cost, prototype ASIC and MCM fabrication and assembly from the MOSIS service", PROCEEDINGS. 1997 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS EDUCATION, MSE'97. DOING MORE WITH LESS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT' (CAT. NO.97TB100127), PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS EDUCATION,, 1997, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, USA, ISBN 0-8186-7996-4, pages 68 - 69, XP002199595 [X] 1-26 * page 1 - page 2 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612551
		[A] - LUO R C ET AL, "Desktop rapid prototyping system with supervisory control and monitoring through Internet", IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS, DEC. 2001, IEEE, USA, vol. 6, no. 4, ISSN 1083-4435, pages 399 - 409, XP002199596 [A] 1-26 * page 399, column L, paragraph 3 - page 401, column R, paragraph 1; figures 1-3 * * page 403, column L, paragraph 4 - page 404, column L, paragraph 1 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3516.974853
	Examination	- JENNIFER PELTIER, WES HANSFORD, "MIDAS: The Multichip Module Designers' Access Service", Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 1995, (19951024), pages 543 - 547, XP001080320

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