EP0775899 - Method and system for automatically inspecting ophthalmic lenses [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.04.2002 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.04.2005 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU | published on 08.06.2005 [2005/23] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc. 4500 Salisbury Road, Suite 300 Jacksonville Florida 32216 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1997/22] | For all designated states JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION PRODUCTS, INC. 4500 Salisbury Road, Suite 300 Jacksonville, Florida 32216 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Wilder, Joseph 89 Ternhune Road Princeton, NJ 08540 / US | 02 /
Dreyfuss, David 355, Brannon Road Nicholasville Kentucky 40356-8719 / US | [1997/39] |
Former [1997/22] | 01 /
Wilder, Joseph 89 Ternhune Road Princeton, NJ 08540 / US | ||
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Dreyfuss, David 4385 Tam-O-Shanter Way Kettering, Ohio 45429-1237 / US | Representative(s) | Mercer, Christopher Paul, et al Carpmaels & Ransford LLP One Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1997/22] | Mercer, Christopher Paul, et al Carpmaels & Ransford 43, Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA / GB | Application number, filing date | 97200131.7 | 20.12.1993 | [1997/22] | Priority number, date | US19920995281 | 21.12.1992 Original published format: US 995281 | [1997/22] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0775899 | Date: | 28.05.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/22] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0775899 | Date: | 04.03.1998 | [1998/10] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0775899 | Date: | 30.05.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.01.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G01M11/02 | [1997/22] | CPC: |
G01M11/0214 (EP,US);
A61F9/00 (KR);
G01M11/0221 (EP,US);
G01M11/0235 (EP,US);
G01M11/0278 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, LI, LU, NL, PT, SE [1997/22] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur automatischen Inspektion von ophthalmischen Linsen | [1997/22] | English: | Method and system for automatically inspecting ophthalmic lenses | [1997/22] | French: | Procédé et dispositif d'inspection automatique de lentilles ophtalmiques | [1997/22] | Examination procedure | 12.08.1998 | Examination requested [1998/41] | 22.10.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 28.02.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 13.06.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.08.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 14.08.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP93310334.3 / EP0604174 | Opposition(s) | 01.03.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/21] | Request for further processing for: | 28.02.2000 | Request for further processing filed | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.02.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 07.02.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 11.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 09.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.12.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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 | 30.05.2001 | BE | 30.05.2001 | CH | 30.05.2001 | LI | 30.05.2001 | NL | 30.05.2001 | DK | 30.08.2001 | PT | 30.08.2001 | SE | 30.08.2001 | ES | 30.11.2001 | LU | 20.12.2001 | [2005/23] |
Former [2004/04] | AT | 30.05.2001 | |
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ES | 30.11.2001 | ||
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Former [2002/05] | SE | 30.08.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPH02257007 ; | [A]JPS6348431 ; | [DA]EP0491663 (CIBA GEIGY AG [CH], et al) [DA] 1,13 * the whole document * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19910110), vol. 015, no. 011, Database accession no. (P - 1150), & JP02257007 A 19901017 (SEIKO EPSON CORP) [A] 1 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19880723), vol. 012, no. 264, Database accession no. (P - 734), & JP63048431 A 19880301 (CANON INC) [A] 1 * abstract * | by applicant | EP0491663 | EP0604174 | EP0604173 | EP0605171 | EP0605990 |