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EP0821252
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| EP0821252 - Optical-fiber coupler and manufacturing process therefor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.05.2011 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 29.07.2011 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 31.08.2011 [2011/35] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states FUJIKURA LTD. 5-1 Kiba 1-chome Kohtoh-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [2010/26] | For all designated states FUJIKURA LTD. No. 5-1 Kiba 1-chome Kohtoh-ku Tokyo / JP | ||
| Former [1998/05] | For all designated states FUJIKURA LTD. No. 5-1 Kiba 1-chome Kohtoh-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Suzuki, Fumio 55-1, Mori, Sanbu-machi Sanbu-gun, Chiba-ken / JP | 02 /
Sasaki, Hideki 190-60, Jo Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken / JP | 03 /
Yamasaki, Shigefumi 4-17-10, Miyanodai Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken / JP | 04 /
Yamauchi, Ryozo 2-3-11, Miyamae Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken / JP | 05 /
Abiru, Tomio A-108, 188-33, Jo Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken / JP | [1998/05] | Representative(s) | Lamb, Martin John Carstairs Marks & Clerk LLP 15 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1BW / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/05] | Lamb, Martin John Carstairs MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 97305173.3 | 14.07.1997 | [1998/05] | Priority number, date | JP19960196675 | 25.07.1996 Original published format: JP 19667596 | [1998/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0821252 | Date: | 28.01.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/05] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0821252 | Date: | 02.09.1998 | [1998/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0821252 | Date: | 30.06.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/26] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 13.07.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G02B6/287 | [1998/05] | CPC: |
G02B6/2835 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1999/19] |
| Former [1998/05] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Optischer Faserkoppler und Verfahren zu seiner Herstellung | [1998/05] | English: | Optical-fiber coupler and manufacturing process therefor | [1998/05] | French: | Coupleur à fibre optique et procédé pour sa fabrication | [1998/05] | Examination procedure | 13.11.1998 | Examination requested [1999/02] | 19.05.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 02.11.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.01.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 04.07.2006 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.04.2008 | Date of oral proceedings | 01.07.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 09.07.2008 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.07.2008 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 20.01.2009 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.11.2009 | Date of oral proceedings | 02.12.2009 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 14.12.2009 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.04.2010 | Fee for grant paid | 13.04.2010 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.03.2011 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.07.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.07.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.07.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.07.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 14.07.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 14.07.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 13.07.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 12.07.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 13.07.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 14.07.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 10.07.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 13 |
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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 | IT | 30.06.2010 | FR | 30.08.2010 | DE | 01.02.2011 | [2011/35] |
| Former [2011/28] | IT | 30.06.2010 | |
| DE | 01.02.2011 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4291940 (KAWASAKI BRIAN S, et al) [A] 1 * column 2, line 23 - line 68 * * column 3, line 1 - line 8 ** figure .; claims 6,9 *; | [X]US4400055 (OZEKI TAKESHI [JP], et al) [X] 1,4 * the whole document * | Examination | US5171345 |