EP1286201 - Alignment method for optimizing extinction ratios of coated polarizing beam splitters [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.08.2007 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.06.2009 | Change - representative | published on 15.07.2009 [2009/29] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Agilent Technologies, Inc. - a Delaware Corporation - 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard Santa Clara CA 95051 / US | [N/P] |
Former [2007/04] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies, Inc. - a Delaware Corporation - 5301 Stevens Creek Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95051 / US | ||
Former [2006/40] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies, Inc. (A Delaware Corporation) 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto CA 94306-2024 / US | ||
Former [2003/09] | For all designated states Agilent Technologies Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) 395 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94306-2024 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nevis, Elizabeth A. 1219 Torrance Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089 / US | [2003/09] | Representative(s) | Schoppe, Fritz Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler & Zinkler Patentanwälte Postfach 246 82043 Pullach bei München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2009/29] | Schoppe, Fritz Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler & Zinkler Patentanwälte Postfach 246 82043 Pullach bei München / DE | ||
Former [2003/09] | Schoppe, Fritz, Dipl.-Ing. Patentanwälte Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler & Zinkler, Postfach 71 08 67 81458 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 02011488.0 | 24.05.2002 | [2003/09] | Priority number, date | US20010933622 | 20.08.2001 Original published format: US 933622 | [2003/09] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1286201 | Date: | 26.02.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/09] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1286201 | Date: | 05.11.2003 | [2003/45] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1286201 | Date: | 04.10.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/40] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 22.09.2003 | Classification | IPC: | G02B27/28 | [2003/09] | CPC: |
G02B27/283 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, NL [2004/31] |
Former [2003/09] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR | Title | German: | Ausrichtungsverfahren zur Optimierung des Extinktionsverhältnisses beschichteter Polarisationsstrahlteiler | [2003/09] | English: | Alignment method for optimizing extinction ratios of coated polarizing beam splitters | [2003/09] | French: | Méthode d'alignement pour optimiser le rapport d'extinction des diviseurs de faisceaux de polarisation | [2003/09] | Examination procedure | 04.05.2004 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 04.05.2004 | Examination requested [2004/27] | 28.09.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 19.01.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.04.2006 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.08.2006 | Fee for grant paid | 21.08.2006 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.07.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.05.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.05.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.05.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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Former [2007/19] | NL | 04.10.2006 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US4859029 (DURELL WILLIAM E [US]) [X] 1-6 * column 3, line 11 - column 5, line 34; figures 1,2 * * column 7, line 42 - column 9, line 48; figures 10,11 *; | [A] - PEZZANITI J L ET AL, "ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF POLARIZING BEAM-SPLITTER CUBES", APPLIED OPTICS, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA,WASHINGTON, US, (19940401), vol. 33, no. 10, ISSN 0003-6935, pages 1916 - 1929, XP000434206 [A] 1,7 * page 1918, column 1, line 25 - page 1921, column 1, line 24; figures 2-6; table 1 * * page 1921, column 2, line 45 - page 1926, column 2, line 7; figures 7-9 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.33.001916 | [A] - LI L ET AL, "HIGH-PERFORMANCE THIN-FILM POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER OPERATING AT ANGLES GREATER THAN THE CRITICAL ANGLE", APPLIED OPTICS, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA,WASHINGTON, US, (20000601), vol. 39, no. 16, ISSN 0003-6935, pages 2754 - 2771, XP000951760 [A] 1,7 * page 2766, column 2, line 28 - page 2767, column 1, line 9; figure 6; table 4 * * page 2769, column 1, line 9 - page 2769, column 2, line 2 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.39.002754 |