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EP0577066 - Cutting tool employing vapor-deposited polycrystalline diamond for cutting edge and method of manufacturing the same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.07.2003
Database last updated on 19.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.02.2006Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 05.04.2006  [2006/14]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
5-33, Kitahama 4-chome, Chuo-ku
Osaka 541 / JP
[1994/01]
Inventor(s)01 / Ikegaya, Akihiko, c/o Itami Works of
Sumitomo Elec. Ind., Ltd., 1-1, Koyakita 1-chome
Itami-shi, Hyogo / JP
02 / Tanabe, Keiichiro, c/o Itami Works of
Sumitomo Elec. Ind., Ltd., 1-1, Koyakita 1-chome
Itami-shi, Hyogo / JP
03 / Takahashi, Toshiya, c/o Itami Works of
Sumitomo Elec. Ind., Ltd., 1-1, Koyakita 1-chome
Itami-shi, Hyogo / JP
04 / Fujimori, Naoji, c/o Itami Works of
Sumitomo Elec. Ind., Ltd., 1-1, Koyakita 1-chome
Itami-shi, Hyogo / JP
[1994/01]
Representative(s)Grosse Schumacher Knauer von Hirschhausen
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Elsenheimerstrasse 49
80687 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2003/20]GROSSE BOCKHORNI SCHUMACHER
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Forstenrieder Allee 59
81476 München / DE
Former [1997/17]Bockhorni, Josef, Dipl.-Ing., et al
Patentanwälte Herrmann-Trentepohl Grosse - Bockhorni & Partner Forstenrieder Allee 59
81476 München / DE
Former [1994/01]Kirschner, Klaus Dieter, Dipl.-Phys.
Patentanwälte Herrmann-Trentepohl, Kirschner, Grosse, Bockhorni & Partner Forstenrieder Allee 59
D-81476 München / DE
Application number, filing date93110342.829.06.1993
[1994/01]
Priority number, dateJP1992017314330.06.1992         Original published format: JP 17314392
JP1992017672603.07.1992         Original published format: JP 17672692
[1994/01]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0577066
Date:05.01.1994
Language:EN
[1994/01]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0577066
Date:04.09.2002
Language:EN
[2002/36]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP06.10.1993
ClassificationIPC:C23C16/26, C23C16/00, C23C4/04, C23C24/00, B23P15/28
[1994/01]
CPC:
C23C16/278 (EP,US); B23P15/28 (EP,US); C23C16/01 (EP,US);
C23C16/271 (EP,US); C23C16/276 (EP,US); C23C28/04 (EP,US);
C23C28/044 (EP,US); C23C28/048 (EP,US); C23C30/005 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1994/01]
TitleGerman:Schneidwerkzeug unter Anwendung von aus der Dampfphase abgeschiedenem polykristallinem Diamant für die Schneidkante und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung[1994/01]
English:Cutting tool employing vapor-deposited polycrystalline diamond for cutting edge and method of manufacturing the same[1994/01]
French:Outil de coupe employant du diamant polycristallin et vapo-déposé pour l'arête de coupe et méthode pour sa fabrication[1994/01]
Examination procedure31.01.1994Examination requested  [1994/13]
28.01.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.06.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.02.2000Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
10.08.2000Reply to a communication from the examining division
25.01.2001Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
28.05.2001Reply to a communication from the examining division
02.01.2002Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
07.03.2002Communication of intention to grant the patent
06.06.2002Fee for grant paid
06.06.2002Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)05.06.2003No opposition filed within time limit [2003/35]
Fees paidRenewal fee
26.06.1995Renewal fee patent year 03
21.06.1996Renewal fee patent year 04
26.06.1997Renewal fee patent year 05
23.06.1998Renewal fee patent year 06
22.06.1999Renewal fee patent year 07
26.06.2000Renewal fee patent year 08
28.06.2001Renewal fee patent year 09
26.06.2002Renewal fee patent year 10
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR04.09.2002
[2006/14]
Documents cited:Search[A]JP3277412  ;
 [X]EP0469204  (FUJITSU LTD [JP]);
 [Y]EP0279898  (WINTER & SOHN ERNST [DE])
 [Y]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 523 (C-657)21 November 1989 & JP-A-1 212 767 ( SUMITOMO ELECTRIC IND. LTD. ) 25 August 1989, & JP1212767 A 19890825
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 16, no. 99 (M-122)11 March 1992 & JP-A-3 277 412 ( G N TOOLS KK ) 9 December 1991, & JP3277412 A 19911209
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