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EP About this file: EP2573609

EP2573609 - Immersion microscope objective and laser scanning microscope system using the same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusPatent revoked
Status updated on  02.10.2024
Database last updated on 03.04.2025
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  30.12.2016
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  19.12.2016
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  06.12.2016
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  02.12.2016
Most recent event   Tooltip03.10.2024Revocation of patentpublished on 06.11.2024  [2024/45]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
[2016/40]
Former [2016/39]For all designated states
Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-0072 / JP
Former [2013/13]For all designated states
Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo 151-0072 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Saito, Masayoshi
c/o Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi
Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
02 / Yokoi, Eiji
c/o Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi
Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
03 / Kusaka, Kenichi
c/o Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi
Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
04 / Horigome, Shuhei
c/o Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi
Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
05 / Sugizaki, Noriyuki
c/o Olympus Corporation
2951 Ishikawa-machi
Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 192-8507 / JP
 [2016/41]
Former [2013/13]01 / Saito, Masayoshi
c/o Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0072 / JP
02 / Yokoi, Eiji
c/o Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0072 / JP
03 / Kusaka, Kenichi
c/o Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0072 / JP
04 / Horigome, Shuhei
c/o Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0072 / JP
05 / Sugizaki, Noriyuki
c/o Olympus Corporation
43-2, Hatagaya 2-chome
Shibuya-ku
Tokyo, 151-0072 / JP
Representative(s)Schicker, Silvia
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
Patentanwälte und Rechtsanwalt PartG mbB
Schweigerstraße 2
81541 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2017/05]von Hellfeld, Axel
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
Patentanwälte PartG mbB
Schweigerstrasse 2
81541 München / DE
Former [2013/13]von Hellfeld, Axel
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Schweigerstrasse 2
81541 München / DE
Application number, filing date12008381.116.07.2008
[2013/13]
Priority number, dateJP2007018636917.07.2007         Original published format: JP 2007186369
JP2008013823127.05.2008         Original published format: JP 2008138231
JP2008017944909.07.2008         Original published format: JP 2008179449
[2013/13]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2573609
Date:27.03.2013
Language:EN
[2013/13]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2573609
Date:17.04.2013
[2013/16]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2573609
Date:01.02.2017
Language:EN
[2017/05]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP15.03.2013
ClassificationIPC:G02B21/00, G02B21/02, G02B9/60, G02B15/163, G02B21/33
[2016/31]
CPC:
G02B15/145119 (EP,US); G02B21/0032 (US); G02B21/02 (EP,US);
G02B21/33 (EP,US); G02B9/60 (EP,US)
Former IPC [2013/16]G02B21/02, G02B21/33, G02B9/60, G02B15/163
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [2013/13]
TitleGerman:Immersionsmikroskopobjektiv und Laserrastermikroskopsystem damit[2013/13]
English:Immersion microscope objective and laser scanning microscope system using the same[2013/13]
French:Objectif de microscope à immersion et système de microscope à balayage laser l'utilisant[2013/13]
Examination procedure17.12.2012Examination requested  [2013/13]
21.06.2013Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
10.08.2016Communication of intention to grant the patent
25.11.2016Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
25.11.2016Fee for grant paid
25.11.2016Fee for publishing/printing paid
19.12.2016Information about intention to grant a patent
19.12.2016Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP08012853.1  / EP2017663
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 (EP20080012853) is  29.04.2014
Opposition(s)Opponent(s)01  02.11.2017  07.11.2017  ADMISSIBLE
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10
07745 Jena / DE
Opponent's representative
Ridderbusch, Oliver
Prisma IP
Patentanwaltskanzlei
Landsberger Straße 155, Haus 1
80687 München / DE
 [N/P]
Former [2021/16]
Opponent(s)01  02.11.2017  07.11.2017  ADMISSIBLE
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10
07745 Jena / DE
Opponent's representative
Ridderbusch, Oliver
Prisma IP
Patentanwaltskanzlei
Landsberger Straße 155
80687 München / DE
Former [2017/50]
Opponent(s)01  02.11.2017  07.11.2017  ADMISSIBLE
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10
07745 Jena / DE
Opponent's representative
Müller, Silke
Carl Zeiss AG
Patentabteilung
Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 10
07745 Jena / DE
13.03.2020Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition
05.05.2020Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition
03.06.2021Date of oral proceedings
29.09.2021Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition
29.09.2021Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings
27.09.2024Legal effect of revocation of patent [2024/45]
27.09.2024Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked
Appeal following opposition09.12.2021Appeal received No.  T2101/21
09.12.2021Payment of appeal fee
07.02.2022Statement of grounds filed
20.09.2024Result of appeal procedure: revocation of the patent
27.09.2024Despatch of the decision of the Board of Appeal
29.11.2021Appeal received No.  T2101/21
29.11.2021Payment of appeal fee
07.02.2022Statement of grounds filed
20.09.2024Result of appeal procedure: revocation of the patent
27.09.2024Despatch of the decision of the Board of Appeal
Fees paidRenewal fee
17.12.2012Renewal fee patent year 03
17.12.2012Renewal fee patent year 04
17.12.2012Renewal fee patent year 05
18.07.2013Renewal fee patent year 06
17.07.2014Renewal fee patent year 07
20.07.2015Renewal fee patent year 08
19.07.2016Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT01.02.2017
NL01.02.2017
GB16.07.2017
FR31.07.2017
[2018/29]
Former [2018/21]IT01.02.2017
NL01.02.2017
GB16.07.2017
Former [2017/51]IT01.02.2017
NL01.02.2017
Former [2017/45]NL01.02.2017
Documents cited:Search[A]US5502596  (SUZUKI TOSHINOBU [JP]) [A] 1-15 * column 2, line 18 - column 8, line 7 * * figures 1-5 *;
 [A]US5517360  (SUZUKI TOSHINOBU [JP]) [A] 1-15 * column 1, line 60 - column 4, line 60 ** figures 1, 2 *;
 [A]JP2002350734  (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO) [A] 1-15 * paragraph [0013] - paragraph [0081] * * figures 1-5 *;
 [I]US2003043473  (OKUYAMA YOKO [JP]) [I] 1-15 * paragraph [0010] - paragraph [0073] * * figure 1 *;
 [A]JP2007121338  (OLYMPUS CORP) [A] 1-15 * paragraph [0010] - paragraph [0060] * * figures 1-5 *;
 [A]US2007109659  (ROSTALSKI HANS-JUERGEN [DE], et al) [A] 1-15 * paragraph [0014] - paragraph [0050] * * figure 1 *
ExaminationUS7215478
by applicantJP2002031760
 JP2005031507
 JP2005043624
 JP2005352021
 JP2008040154
    - INTRODUCTION TO OPTICS, (20020329), page 82
OppositionUS3700311
 US4373785
 US5502596
 US5517360
 US5659425
 US5982559
 US2003043473
 US2003053218
 US2006203354
 DE102005027423
 US7199938
 JP3944099B
    - Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH, "IC2S-Objectives für biomedizinische Anwendungen", Zeiss Katalog, (20070500), XP055437072
    - Yueqian Zhang, Herbert Gross, "Systematic Design of Microscopic Lenses", Design and Fabrication Congress 2017, (20170000), XP055437095

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2287633
    - D.N. Frolov, "Synthesis of the optical systems of lens objectives for microscopes", Opticheski Zhurnal, (20020916), vol. 69, no. 9, pages 614 - 617, XP055437096

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOT.69.000614
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