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EP2021789 - APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MASS SPECTROSCOPY [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 28.10.2016 Database last updated on 30.10.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	28.10.2016	Refusal of application	published on 30.11.2016 [2016/48]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Waters Technologies Corporation 34 Maple Street Milford, MA 01757 / US
	[2009/15]
Former [2009/07]	For all designated states Waters Investments Limited 109 Lukens Drive New Castle Delaware 19720 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / GEROMANOS, Scott J. 2 Crest Road Middletown, NJ 07748 / US
	02 / LI, Guo-Zhong 14 Morse Street Westborough, MA 01581 / US
	03 / SILVA, Jeffrey C. 95 Hale Street Beverly, MA 01915 / US
	04 / GORENSTEIN, Marc V. 313 Brookline Street Needham, MA 02492 / US
	05 / VISSERS, Hans Seringstraat 17 NL-1271 NB Huizen / NL
	[2009/07]
Representative(s)	Vossius, Corinna, et al Corinna Vossius IP Group Patent- und Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Buchenstrasse 17 82064 Straßlach-Dingharting / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2013/25]	Vossius, Corinna, et al Corinna Vossius IP Group Intellectual Property Law Patent- und Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Widenmayerstrasse 43 80538 München / DE
Former [2009/07]	Vossius, Corinna, et al Dr. Volker Vossius Patent- und Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Geibelstrasse 6 81679 München / DE
Application number, filing date	07784110.4	24.05.2007
	[2009/07]
	WO2007US69657
Priority number, date	US20060808815P	26.05.2006 Original published format: US 808815 P
	[2009/07]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	WO2007140251
	Date:	06.12.2007
	Language:	EN
	[2007/49]
	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP2021789
	Date:	11.02.2009
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 06.12.2007 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2009/07]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	27.11.2008
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	20.09.2010
Classification	IPC:	G06F19/00, H01J49/00, G01N33/48, C12Q1/00	[2010/42]
	CPC:	H01J49/0036 (EP,US); G16B40/10 (EP,US); G16B20/00 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2009/19]	G01N33/48, C12Q1/00
	Former IPC [2009/07]	G01N33/48
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB [2009/48]
Former [2009/07]	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR
Title	German:	VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR DURCHFÜHRUNG VON MASSENSPEKTROSKOPIE	[2009/07]
	English:	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MASS SPECTROSCOPY	[2009/07]
	French:	APPAREIL ET PROCÉDÉ DE SPECTROMÉTRIE DE MASSE	[2009/07]
Entry into regional phase	17.11.2008	National basic fee paid
	17.11.2008	Search fee paid
	17.11.2008	Designation fee(s) paid
	17.11.2008	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	17.11.2008	Examination requested [2009/07]
	30.12.2008	Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
	09.07.2009	Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR
	13.04.2011	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	10.08.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	20.12.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.05.2016	Application refused, date of legal effect [2016/48]
	03.05.2016	Date of oral proceedings
	27.05.2016	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
	27.05.2016	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	23.06.2016	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	07.07.2016	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2016/48]
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 10.08.2011
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	27.05.2009	Renewal fee patent year 03
	25.05.2010	Renewal fee patent year 04
	25.05.2011	Renewal fee patent year 05
	25.05.2012	Renewal fee patent year 06
	28.05.2013	Renewal fee patent year 07
	27.05.2014	Renewal fee patent year 08
	27.05.2015	Renewal fee patent year 09
	27.05.2016	Renewal fee patent year 10
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Documents cited:	Search	[I]WO2005114930 (WATERS INVESTMENTS LTD [US], et al) [I] 1-24 * abstract * * paragraph [0010] - paragraph [0022] * * paragraph [0067] - paragraph [0137] * * paragraph [0174] - paragraph [0175] * * paragraph [0199] - paragraph [0202] * * figures 1,3,12 *;
		[A]WO2005113830 (WATERS INVESTMENTS LTD [US], et al) [A] 1-24 * abstract * * paragraph [0003] - paragraph [0030] ** paragraph [0016] - paragraph [0017] *;
		[A] - JENSEN O N ET AL, "IDENTIFICATION OF THE COMPONENTS OF SIMPLE PROTEIN MIXTURES BY HIGH-ACCURACY PEPTIDE MASS MAPPING AND DATABASE SEARCHING", ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, US LNKD- DOI:10.1021/AC970896Z, (19971201), vol. 69, no. 23, ISSN 0003-2700, pages 4741 - 4750, XP001154861 [A] 1-24 * page 4741 - page 4744, column l * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac970896z
	International search	[Y]WO03054549 (MICROMASS LTD [GB], et al);
		[Y]WO2005114930 (WATERS INVESTMENTS LTD [US], et al);
		[Y] - SILVA ET AL., "Quantitative Proteomic Analysis by Accurate Mass Retention Time Pairs", ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, (20050401), vol. 77, pages 2187 - 2200, XP002527479 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/AC048455K

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