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EP0488627
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0488627 - Oxygen permeable contact lens and method of manufacture therefor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.12.1996 Database last updated on 22.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2002 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): NL | published on 12.02.2003 [2003/07] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states PARAGON VISION SCIENCES, INC. c/o Summit Partners, One Boston Place Boston, MA 02108 / US | [1996/12] |
| Former [1995/19] | For all designated states PILKINGTON BARNES HIND, INC. 810 Kifer Road Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US | ||
| Former [1992/23] | For all designated states PILKINGTON VISIONCARE INC. 2420 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200 Menlo Park, California 94025 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Pettigrew, Lisa 9012 Moss Creek Circle Las Vegas, Nevada 89117 / US | 02 /
Ratkowski, Donald A. 31 Oakwood Hills Drive Chanler, Arizona 85248 / US | 03 /
Burke, William E. 501 Bishop Drive Tempe, Arizona 85282 / US | 04 /
Weinschenk, Joseph I.III 27 Carson Street Irvine, California 92720 / US | [1992/23] | Representative(s) | Brookes IP Windsor House 6-10 Mount Ephraim Road Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1EE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/19] | BROOKES & MARTIN High Holborn House 52/54 High Holborn London, WC1V 6SE / GB | ||
| Former [1993/44] | Woodcraft, David Charles BROOKES & MARTIN High Holborn House 52/54 High Holborn London, WC1V 6SE / GB | ||
| Former [1992/23] | Lee, Michael John Group Patents Department, Pilkington PLC, Pilkington Technology Centre, Hall Lane, Lathom Nr. Ormskirk, Lancashire L40 5UF / GB | Application number, filing date | 91310842.9 | 25.11.1991 | [1992/23] | Priority number, date | US19900619735 | 29.11.1990 Original published format: US 619735 | [1992/23] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0488627 | Date: | 03.06.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/23] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0488627 | Date: | 17.02.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/07] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0488627 | Date: | 14.02.1996 | [1996/07] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.12.1992 | Classification | IPC: | B29D11/00, G02C7/06, G02B1/04 | [1992/23] | CPC: |
G02C7/043 (EP,US);
B29C39/025 (EP,US);
B29D11/00028 (EP,US);
B29D11/00076 (EP,US);
G02B1/043 (EP,US);
G02C7/045 (EP,US);
G02C7/049 (EP,US);
B29K2105/0002 (EP,US);
B29K2995/0065 (EP,US);
G02C2202/16 (EP,US)
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| Designated contracting states | AT, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [1992/23] | Title | German: | Sauerstoffdurchlässige Kontaktlinse und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung | [1992/23] | English: | Oxygen permeable contact lens and method of manufacture therefor | [1992/23] | French: | Lentilles de contact perméable à l'oxygène et procédé pour leur fabrication | [1992/23] | Examination procedure | 23.07.1993 | Examination requested [1993/38] | 18.07.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 26.01.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.03.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.07.1995 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.09.1995 | Fee for grant paid | 28.09.1995 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 15.11.1996 | No opposition filed within time limit [1997/07] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.11.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.11.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 27.11.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | AT | 14.02.1996 | CH | 14.02.1996 | LI | 14.02.1996 | NL | 14.02.1996 | [2003/07] |
| Former [1997/28] | AT | 14.02.1996 | |
| CH | 14.02.1996 | ||
| LI | 14.02.1996 | ||
| Former [1996/42] | AT | 14.02.1996 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]FR2308941 (BAUSCH & LOMB [US]); | [X]US4365074 (NOVICKY NICK N); | [A]EP0207640 (BAUSCH & LOMB [US]); | [AD]EP0345994 (PILKINGTON VISIONCARE INC [US]) |