| EP0087426 - LATERAL EPITAXIAL GROWTH BY SEEDED SOLIDIFICATION [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.05.1990 Database last updated on 09.04.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.05.1990 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 11.07.1990 [1990/28] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 / US | [1983/36] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
TSAUR, Bor-Yeu 17 Brattle Street Apartment No 1 Arlington, MA 02174 / US | 02 /
FAN, John C. C. 239 South Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 / US | 03 /
GEIS, Michael W. 8 Tuttle Drive Acton, MA 01720 / US | [1983/36] | Representative(s) | Holdcroft, James Gerald, et al Graham Watt & Co LLP St Botolph's House 7-9 St Botolph's Road Sevenoaks Kent TN13 3AJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1983/36] | Holdcroft, James Gerald, Dr., et al Graham Watt & Co., Riverhead Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 2BN / GB | Application number, filing date | 82901665.8 | 14.04.1982 | [1983/36] | WO1982US00465 | Priority number, date | US19810254871 | 16.04.1981 Original published format: US 254871 | US19820359284 | 18.03.1982 Original published format: US 359284 | [1983/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO8203639 | Date: | 28.10.1982 | [1982/26] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0087426 | Date: | 07.09.1983 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 28.10.1982 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1983/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0087426 | Date: | 26.07.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/30] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.09.1985 | Classification | IPC: | C30B13/06 | [1983/36] | CPC: |
H10P14/3238 (EP);
H10P14/3806 (US);
C30B13/00 (EP);
C30B13/06 (EP);
C30B27/00 (EP);
C30B29/60 (EP);
H10P14/2905 (EP);
H10P14/2911 (EP);
H10P14/3411 (EP);
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1983/41] |
| Former [1983/36] | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, LI, LU, NL, SE | Title | German: | LATERALES EPITAXIEWACHSTUM DURCH GEIMPFTE VERFESTIGUNG | [1983/36] | English: | LATERAL EPITAXIAL GROWTH BY SEEDED SOLIDIFICATION | [1983/36] | French: | CROISSANCE EPITAXIALE LATERALE A L'AIDE D'UNE SOLIDIFICATION PROVOQUEE PAR DES GERMES | [1983/36] | Entry into regional phase | 20.12.1982 | National basic fee paid | 20.12.1982 | Search fee paid | 20.12.1982 | Designation fee(s) paid | 30.03.1983 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 30.03.1983 | Examination requested [1983/36] | 19.04.1983 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, CH, LU, NL, SE | 01.06.1983 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: Claims {1} | 29.06.1983 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 11.08.1983 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: Claims | 08.01.1987 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 16.11.1987 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 09.05.1988 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.09.1988 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 22.11.1988 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.01.1989 | Fee for grant paid | 28.01.1989 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 30.04.1990 | No opposition filed within time limit [1990/28] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.03.1984 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.04.1985 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.04.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 18.04.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 12.04.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 15.04.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 17.01.1983 | AT   M02   Not yet paid | 17.01.1983 | BE   M02   Not yet paid | 17.01.1983 | CH   M02   Not yet paid | 17.01.1983 | LU   M02   Not yet paid | 17.01.1983 | NL   M02   Not yet paid | 17.01.1983 | SE   M02   Not yet paid |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A] APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 37, no. 6, September 16, 1980, pages 560-562, New York, US; R.W. McCLELLAND et al.: "A technique for producing epitaxial films on reuseable substrates" [A] | APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 37, no. 6, September 16, 1980, pages 560-562, New York, US; R.W. McCLELLAND et al.: "A technique for producing epitaxial films on reuseable substrates" | International search | [A] Appl. Phys. Lett, issued 01 September 1980, GEISS et al, Silicon Graphoepitaxy Using a Strip-Heater Oven. see pages 454-456. [A] |