EP0627897 - ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 07.02.2003 Database last updated on 12.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ANGIOSONICS INC. 2200 Gateway Center Blvd., Suite 207 Morrisville, N. Carolina 27560 / US | [1997/06] |
Former [1994/50] | For all designated states ANGIOSONICS INC. 1211 Hamburg Turnpike Wayne, NJ 07470 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
WENG, Li 398 North Central Avenue Ramsey, NJ 07446 / US | 02 /
SCRIBNER, Robert M. 2150 West 6th Avenue, Unit C-2 Broomfield, CO 80020 / US | [1994/50] | Representative(s) | Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB Siebertstrasse 3 81675 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1996/24] | VOSSIUS & PARTNER Postfach 86 07 67 81634 München / DE | ||
Former [1994/50] | Maggs, Michael Norman, et al Kilburn & Strode 30 John Street London WC1N 2DD / GB | Application number, filing date | 93904699.1 | 26.01.1993 | [1994/50] | WO1993US00764 | Priority number, date | US19920842529 | 27.02.1992 Original published format: US 842529 | [1994/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9316646 | Date: | 02.09.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/21] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0627897 | Date: | 14.12.1994 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 02.09.1993 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1994/50] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 02.09.1993 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.03.1995 | Classification | IPC: | A61B17/22 | [1995/15] | CPC: |
B06B3/00 (EP,US);
A61B17/22012 (EP,US);
A61B2017/00336 (EP,US);
A61B2017/22018 (EP,US);
A61B2017/22092 (EP,US);
A61B2017/320073 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1994/50] | A61B17/20 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1994/50] | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG ZUR ULTRASCHALLÜBERTRAGUNG | [1994/50] | English: | ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION APPARATUS | [1994/50] | French: | APPAREIL EMETTEUR D'ULTRASONS | [1994/50] | Entry into regional phase | 26.09.1994 | National basic fee paid | 26.09.1994 | Search fee paid | 26.09.1994 | Designation fee(s) paid | 26.09.1994 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 20.09.1993 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: DE | 26.09.1994 | Examination requested [1994/50] | 18.06.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 27.10.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.11.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 06.09.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.09.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 03.04.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.07.2000 | Date of oral proceedings | 22.08.2000 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 23.08.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination {1} | 01.08.2002 | Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2003/13] | 08.10.2002 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time [2003/13] | Appeal following examination | 02.11.2000 | Appeal received No. T0117/01 | 02.01.2001 | Statement of grounds filed | 25.06.2002 | Result of appeal procedure: remittal for grant | 29.05.2002 | Date of oral proceedings | 11.06.2002 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | Divisional application(s) | EP98120505.7 / EP0891744 | Request for further processing for: | 06.09.1999 | Request for further processing filed | 06.09.1999 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 21.09.1999 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.01.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 29.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 28.01.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 31.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.01.2002 | 10   M06   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]DE852275 (ULTRAKUST GERAETEBAU DIPL ING) [A] 1 * page 2, line 47 - line 56 *; | [A]US3433226 (BOYD CHARLES A) [A] 1* claim 1 *; | [A]DE2606997 (MO I KHIM MASH) [A] 1 * page 25, paragraph 4; figure 7 * | International search | [Y]US3565062 (KURIS ARTHUR); | [Y]US4531934 (KOSSOVSKY LEOPOLD V [SU], et al); | [X]US4646725 (MOASSER MANOUTCHEHR [US]); | [X]US4748971 (BORODULIN GERMAN [US], et al); | [XY]US4823793 (ANGULO EARL D [US], et al) | [X] - British Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 11, April 1960 (NEPPIRAS), "Very High Energy Ultrasonics", pgs. 10-16, see entire document. |