EP0703445 - Method and apparatus for measuring concentration of absorptive constituent in scattering medium [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.04.2007 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. 1126-1 Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken / JP | [2006/22] |
Former [1996/13] | For all designated states HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. 1126-1 Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi Shizuoka-ken / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tsuchiya, Yutaka, c/o Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. 1126-1, Ichino-cho Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka-ken / JP | [1996/13] | Representative(s) | Rummler, Felix, et al Maucher Jenkins Seventh Floor Offices Artillery House 11-19 Artillery Row London SW1P 1RT / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2006/06] | Rummler, Felix, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | ||
Former [1996/13] | Whitten, George Alan, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co., 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 95306704.8 | 22.09.1995 | [1996/13] | Priority number, date | JP19940228253 | 22.09.1994 Original published format: JP 22825394 | [1996/13] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0703445 | Date: | 27.03.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/13] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0703445 | Date: | 08.10.1997 | [1997/41] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0703445 | Date: | 31.05.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.08.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G01N21/47, A61B5/00, G01N21/49 | [1997/40] | CPC: |
A61B5/14553 (EP,US);
G01N21/49 (EP,US);
A61B2562/0242 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1996/13] | G01N21/47, A61B5/00 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [1996/13] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Messung der Konzentration von absorbierenden Bestandteilen in einem streuenden Medium | [2005/50] | English: | Method and apparatus for measuring concentration of absorptive constituent in scattering medium | [1996/13] | French: | Procédé et appareil pour determiner la concentration d'un constituent absorbant dans un milieu diffusant | [2005/50] |
Former [1996/13] | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Messung der Konzentration von absorbierenden Bestandteilen in einem streuenden medium | ||
Former [1996/13] | Méthode et appareil pour determiner la concentration d'un constituent absorbantz dans un milieu diffusant | Examination procedure | 18.03.1998 | Examination requested [1998/20] | 26.06.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 07.01.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.09.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 24.01.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.11.2005 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 27.03.2006 | Fee for grant paid | 27.03.2006 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 01.03.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/19] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 09.09.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.09.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.09.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 12.09.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 12.09.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 12.09.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 14.09.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 14.09.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 11 |
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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 | SE | 31.08.2006 | [2006/49] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US5119815 (CHANCE BRITTON [US]) [X] 1,2,10,11,19,20 * column 4, line 37 - column 5, line 43; figures 1-7 *; | [PX]EP0628804 (HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS KK [JP]) [PX] 1,2,10,11,19,20 * figures 2,4; claims 1-3 *; | [A]US5348003 (CARO RICHARD G [US]) [A] 1-4,10-13 * column 5, line 5 - line 50 * * column 9, line 14 - column 10, line 13; claims 1,2 * * column 12, line 37 - column 13, line 58 *; | [A]WO9009003 (NIM INC [US]) [A] 1,3,4,10,12,13 * claims 1-4 *; | [A] - WILSON B C ET AL, "OPTICAL REFLECTANCE AND TRANSMITTANCE OF TISSUES: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS", IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, (19901201), vol. 26, no. 12, pages 2186 - 2199, XP000453579 [A] 1-4,10-13 * page 2193, column R - page 2195, column R * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3.64355 | [A] - FANTINI S ET AL, "QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF THE ABSORPTION SPECTRA OF CHROMOPHORES IN STRONGLY SCATTERING MEDIA: A LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODE BASED TECHNIQUE", APPLIED OPTICS, (19940801), vol. 33, no. 22, pages 5204 - 5213, XP000462186 [A] 1-4,10-13 * page 5205, column L * * page 5206, column R - page 5207, column R * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.33.005204 |