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EP1568306
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| EP1568306 - Endoscope [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.10.2012 Database last updated on 21.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.02.2013 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): GB | published on 06.03.2013 [2013/10] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Olympus Corporation 43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome Shibuya-ku, Tokyo / JP | [2005/35] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Iizuka, Shuhei 2-1-26-302, Takamatsuchyou Tachikawa-shi Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Nagase, Toru 1-32-42-2-1008, Akebonochyou Tachikawa-shi Tokyo / JP | 03 /
Okada, Tsutomu 3-17-30-1-505, Akebono-cho Tachikawa-shi Tokyo / JP | 04 /
Suzuki, Keita 1-26-2-401, Nishimachi Kokubunji-shi Tokyo 185-0035 / JP | [2005/35] | Representative(s) | von Hellfeld, Axel Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte PartG mbB Schweigerstrasse 2 81541 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2011/48] | von Hellfeld, Axel Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Schweigerstrasse 2 81541 München / DE | ||
| Former [2005/35] | von Hellfeld, Axel Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Schweigerstrasse 2 81541 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 05002698.8 | 09.02.2005 | [2005/35] | Priority number, date | JP20040051365 | 26.02.2004 Original published format: JP 2004051365 | [2005/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP1568306 | Date: | 31.08.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/35] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1568306 | Date: | 30.11.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/48] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.05.2005 | Classification | IPC: | A61B1/018, A61M25/01 | [2005/35] | CPC: |
A61B1/018 (EP,US);
A61B1/00133 (EP,US);
A61B17/29 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00398 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00469 (EP,US);
A61B2017/22075 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IE [2006/20] |
| Former [2005/35] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Endoskop | [2005/35] | English: | Endoscope | [2005/35] | French: | Endoscope | [2005/35] | Examination procedure | 11.08.2005 | Examination requested [2005/41] | 25.08.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 07.02.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.09.2010 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.01.2011 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.07.2011 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.10.2011 | Fee for grant paid | 14.10.2011 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 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 25.08.2006 | Opposition(s) | 31.08.2012 | No opposition filed within time limit [2012/45] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 19.02.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.02.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.02.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 18.02.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 17.02.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | 29.02.2012 | GB | 29.02.2012 | [2013/10] |
| Former [2013/07] | FR | 29.02.2012 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JPH09140663 ; | [A]JPH09492 ; | [DA]JPS57190541 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO) [DA] 1,3-7,12,13,15,16,19,20 * figures 1-7 *; | [A]US4976697 (WALDER ANTHONY J [US], et al) [A] 8-11 * column 4, line 4 - column 5, line 59; figures 4-6 *; | [A]WO9601592 (STORZ KARL GMBH & CO [DE], et al) [A] 1-7,12-20 * page 1, paragraph 2; figures 1,2 * * page 3, paragraph 2 - page 5, paragraph 3 * * page 6, paragraph 5 - page 8, paragraph 1 * * page 8, paragraph L - page 9, paragraph 3 * * page 10, paragraph 1 - page 11, paragraph 2 *; | [XA]US5931833 (SILVERSTEIN FRED E [US]) [X] 1-9 * column 1, paragraph 35 - column 2, paragraph 65; figures 1,2 * * column 3, line 25 - column 5, line 49 * * column 6, line 20 - column 7, line 6 * [A] 10-20; | [XA]US6171234 (WHITE DAVID A [US], et al) [X] 1,2,6,12,15-17 * column 1, line 52 - column 2, line 53; figures 1-11 * * column 3, line 33 - column 4, line 42 * * column 5, line 11 - line 64 * [A] 3,5,7-11,13,14,18-20 | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19971031), vol. 1997, no. 10, & JP09140663 A 19970603 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO LTD) [X] 1-20 * abstract * * paragraph [0010] - paragraph [0017] * * paragraph [0021] - paragraph [0023] * * paragraph [0025] - paragraph [0031] * * paragraph [0033] - paragraph [0036] * * paragraph [0054] - paragraph [0075] * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19970530), vol. 1997, no. 05, & JP09000492 A 19970107 (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO LTD) [A] 1-20 * abstract * | by applicant | JPS57117823 |