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EP0086531 - Apparatus for ultrasonic investigation [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Opposition rejected Status updated on 20.07.1989 Database last updated on 09.04.2026
Most recent event Tooltip	12.08.1989	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): BE	published on 27.09.1989 [1989/39]
Applicant(s)	For:DE Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH Habsburgerallee 11 52064 Aachen / DE
	For:BE FR GB SE Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
	[N/P]
Former [1983/34]	For:DE Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH Röntgenstrasse 24 D-22335 Hamburg / DE
	For:BE FR GB SE Philips Electronics N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 NL-5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
Inventor(s)	01 / Schomberg, Hermann König-Heinrich-Weg 127d D-2000 Hamburg 61 / DE
	[1983/34]
Representative(s)	Hartmann, Heinrich, et al Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH, Habsburgerallee 11 52064 Aachen / DE
	[N/P]
Former [1983/34]	Hartmann, Heinrich, Dipl.-Ing., et al Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH, Röntgenstrasse 24 D-22335 Hamburg / DE
Application number, filing date	83200189.5	07.02.1983
	[1983/34]
Priority number, date	DE19823204829	11.02.1982 Original published format: DE 3204829
	[1983/34]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP0086531
	Date:	24.08.1983
	Language:	DE
	[1983/34]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0086531
	Date:	20.05.1987
	Language:	DE
	[1987/21]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	31.05.1983
Classification	IPC:	G01H3/12, G10K11/34	[1983/34]
	CPC:	B06B1/0688 (EP); G01H3/005 (EP); G01H3/125 (EP)
Designated contracting states	BE, DE, FR, GB, SE [1983/34]
Title	German:	Anordnung zur Untersuchung mit Ultraschall	[1983/34]
	English:	Apparatus for ultrasonic investigation	[1983/34]
	French:	Dispositif pour la recherche par ultrasons	[1983/34]
File destroyed:	12.06.1999
Examination procedure	28.10.1983	Examination requested [1984/02]
	30.11.1984	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	24.04.1985	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	28.10.1985	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	21.01.1986	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	11.07.1986	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: )
	21.10.1986	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	15.01.1987	Fee for grant paid
	15.01.1987	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	Opponent(s)	01 08.02.1988 25.02.1988 ADMISSIBLE Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin und München -VPA PA I, Med- Postfach 22 16 34 D-80506 München / DE
		[1988/14]
	31.03.1988	Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition
	27.07.1988	Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition
	02.09.1988	Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M02)
	16.09.1988	Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor
	11.04.1989	Date of despatch of rejection of opposition
	21.04.1989	Legal effect of rejection of opposition [1989/36]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	09.02.1985	Renewal fee patent year 03
	17.02.1986	Renewal fee patent year 04
	19.02.1987	Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	SE	08.02.1988
	BE	28.02.1989
	[1989/39]
Former [1989/21]	SE	08.02.1988
Documents cited:	Search	[A] IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, Band 20, Nr. 9, Februar 1978, Seiten 3749-3751, New York, USA [A]
		[AD] THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Band 69, Nr. 3, Mrz 1981, Seiten 853-859, New York, USA [AD]

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