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EP0257197
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| EP0257197 - Method and apparatus for controlling the organic contamination level in an electroless plating bath [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.11.1993 Database last updated on 09.04.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.11.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.12.2007 [2007/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1988/09] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
McBride, Donald Gene 2058 Cheshire Road Binghamton, NY 13903 / US | 02 /
Rickert, Robert George 2705 Foster Street Endwell, NY 13760 / US | [1988/09] | Representative(s) | Klein, Daniel Jacques Henri Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle 06610 La Gaude / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [1992/06] | Klein, Daniel Jacques Henri Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle F-06610 La Gaude / FR | ||
| Former [1988/41] | Combeau, Jacques Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle F-06610 La Gaude / FR | ||
| Former [1988/09] | Teufel, Fritz, Dipl.-Phys. IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme GmbH Patentwesen und Urheberrecht Pascalstrasse 100 W-7000 Stuttgart 80 / DE | Application number, filing date | 87106898.7 | 12.05.1987 | [1988/09] | Priority number, date | US19860884330 | 11.07.1986 Original published format: US 884330 | [1988/09] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0257197 | Date: | 02.03.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/09] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0257197 | Date: | 20.09.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/38] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0257197 | Date: | 27.01.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/04] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 01.08.1989 | Classification | IPC: | G01N27/22, C23C18/16 | [1989/35] | CPC: |
C23C18/1683 (EP,US);
H05K3/187 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1988/09] | G01N27/22 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1988/09] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Kontrolle des organischen Kontaminationspegels in einem Platierungsbad ohne Elektrode | [1988/09] | English: | Method and apparatus for controlling the organic contamination level in an electroless plating bath | [1988/09] | French: | Méthode et appareil de contrôle du niveau de contamination organique dans un bain d'enduction sans électrodes | [1988/09] | Examination procedure | 30.05.1988 | Examination requested [1988/31] | 29.11.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 03.06.1991 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.08.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 19.02.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.04.1992 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 03.08.1992 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.09.1992 | Fee for grant paid | 15.09.1992 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.10.1993 | No opposition filed within time limit [1994/03] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.05.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.05.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 21.05.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.05.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 27.01.1993 | [1999/42] | Documents cited: | Search | [A] JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL STUDY, vol. 127, no. 2, February 1980, pages 365-368, Princeton, GB; M. PAUNOVIC: "An electrochemical control system for electroless copper bath" [A] |