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EP0624810 - Optical fiber connector unit and optical fiber connector [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  07.06.2002
Database last updated on 27.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.06.2002No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 24.07.2002  [2002/30]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 3-chome Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 163-19 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1996/21]For all designated states
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 3-chome
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-19 / JP
Former [1994/46]For all designated states
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
1-6 Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yoshizawa, Takashi
7-13-17, Musashidai
Hidaka-shi, Saitama / JP
02 / Oguchi, Shigemitsu
1526-27, Yamaguchi, Tokorozawa
Saitama / JP
03 / Nagayama, Akira
3-1-3-202, Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo / JP
04 / Kanayama, Kazunori
4-10-3, Nakanobe, Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
05 / Kato, Kuniharu
No.101, 747-77, Funaishikawa, Tokai-mura
Naka-gun, Ibaraki / JP
06 / Ando, Yasuhiro
2-14-14, Izumi-cho
Houya-shi, Tokyo / JP
[1994/46]
Representative(s)Stebbing, Timothy Charles, et al
Haseltine Lake LLP
Lincoln House, 5th Floor
300 High Holborn
London WC1V 7JH / GB
[N/P]
Former [1994/46]Stebbing, Timothy Charles, et al
Haseltine Lake & Co. Hazlitt House 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1AT / GB
Application number, filing date94107485.813.05.1994
[1994/46]
Priority number, dateJP1993011255214.05.1993         Original published format: JP 11255293
JP1993011833320.05.1993         Original published format: JP 11833393
[1994/46]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0624810
Date:17.11.1994
Language:EN
[1994/46]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0624810
Date:31.07.1996
[1996/31]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0624810
Date:01.08.2001
Language:EN
[2001/31]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP14.06.1996
ClassificationIPC:G02B6/38
[1994/46]
CPC:
G02B6/3869 (EP,US); G02B6/3888 (EP,US); G02B6/3818 (EP,US);
G02B6/3893 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB,   IT,   SE [1994/46]
TitleGerman:Baugruppe für Glasfaserverbindung und Glasfaserstecker[1994/46]
English:Optical fiber connector unit and optical fiber connector[1994/46]
French:Unité de connexion à fibre optique et connecteur à fibre optique[1994/46]
Examination procedure17.09.1996Examination requested  [1996/46]
03.02.1999Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
04.06.1999Reply to a communication from the examining division
18.10.2000Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
18.01.2001Communication of intention to grant the patent
09.04.2001Fee for grant paid
09.04.2001Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)03.05.2002No opposition filed within time limit [2002/30]
Fees paidRenewal fee
28.05.1996Renewal fee patent year 03
27.05.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
26.05.1998Renewal fee patent year 05
21.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
24.05.2000Renewal fee patent year 07
23.05.2001Renewal fee patent year 08
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Documents cited:Search[Y]JPS61204608  ;
 [A]US4240695  (EVANS ROBERT F [US]) [A] 10* column 2, line 38 - line 58; figures 1,3 *;
 [A]GB2112170  (MOLEX INC) [A] 10 * abstract * * page 2, line 8 - line 14 * * page 2, line 40 - line 54 *;
 [XA]EP0216643  (ITT [US]) [X] 10 * page 4, line 37 - page 6, line 11 * * page 6, line 31 - page 7, line 19; figure 3 * [A] 11,12,16;
 [A]EP0223608  (RAYCHEM CORP [US]) [A] 1,9 * abstract *;
 [Y]WO8807691  (RAYCHEM CORP [US]) [Y] 1,9 * abstract * * page 4, paragraph 5 - page 5, paragraph 1 * * page 6, paragraph 2 * * page 15, paragraph 3 *;
 [A]US4804243  (BORSUK LESLIE M [US], et al) [A] 2-5 * abstract *;
 [A]US4944568  (DANBACH PHILIP J [US], et al) [A] 1,9 * figures 2,3,6 *
 [Y]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19870203), vol. 011, no. 035, Database accession no. (P - 542), & JP61204608 A 19860910 (HITACHI LTD;OTHERS: 03) [Y] 1,9 * abstract *
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