EP2997590 - LEED FOR SEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.11.2018 Database last updated on 09.07.2024 | |
Former | The patent has been granted Status updated on 08.12.2017 | ||
Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 04.08.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 26.06.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 29.07.2020 [2020/31] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation 1919-1 Tancha Onna-son Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 904-0495 / JP | [2016/12] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SHINTAKE, Tsumoru c/o OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY 1919-1 Tancha Onna-son Kunigami-gun Okinawa 904-0495 / JP | [2016/12] | Representative(s) | Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP Cheapside House 138 Cheapside London EC2V 6BJ / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2016/12] | Wilding, Frances Ward Haseltine Lake LLP Lincoln House, 5th Floor 300 High Holborn London WC1V 7JH / GB | Application number, filing date | 14797934.8 | 14.05.2014 | [2016/12] | WO2014JP02556 | Priority number, date | US201361823507P | 15.05.2013 Original published format: US 201361823507 P | [2016/12] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2014185074 | Date: | 20.11.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/47] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2997590 | Date: | 23.03.2016 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 20.11.2014 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2016/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2997590 | Date: | 10.01.2018 | Language: | EN | [2018/02] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 20.11.2014 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.12.2016 | Classification | IPC: | H01J37/244, G01N23/20, H01J37/295 | [2016/12] | CPC: |
H01J37/244 (EP,US);
G01N23/20 (EP,US);
H01J37/2955 (EP,US);
H01J2237/2449 (EP,US);
H01J2237/24578 (EP,US);
H01J2237/2544 (EP,US);
H01J2237/2803 (EP,US)
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