EP0961147 - Binocular telescope [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 03.03.2006 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 03.03.2006 | Patent maintained (B2 publication) | published on 19.04.2006 [2006/16] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states SWAROVSKI OPTIK KG Swarovskistrasse 70 8067 Absam / AT | [2006/16] |
Former [1999/48] | For all designated states Swarovski Optik KG Swarovskistrasse 70 8067 Absam / AT | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Miller, Benno G. Hauptmannstr. 26 6020 Innsbruck / AT | 02 /
Murg, Erwin Kugelfangweg 9 6063 Neu-Rum / AT | 03 /
Pernstich, Ludwig Schnatzenbichl 50 6063 Rum / AT | [1999/48] | Representative(s) | Kador & Partner Part mbB Corneliusstraße 15 80469 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [1999/48] | Kador & Partner Corneliusstrasse 15 80469 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 98109203.4 | 18.05.1998 | [1999/48] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0961147 | Date: | 01.12.1999 | Language: | DE | [1999/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0961147 | Date: | 10.01.2001 | Language: | DE | [2001/02] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0961147 | Date: | 19.04.2006 | Language: | DE | [2006/16] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.10.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G02B7/06 | [1999/48] | CPC: |
G02B23/18 (EP,US);
G02B7/06 (EP,US);
G02B7/12 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, DE, FR, GB, IT, NL, SE [2000/32] |
Former [1999/48] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Binokulares Fernrohr | [1999/48] | English: | Binocular telescope | [1999/48] | French: | Télescope binoculaire | [1999/48] | Examination procedure | 08.09.1999 | Examination requested [1999/48] | 08.09.1999 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 02.12.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.12.1999 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 06.04.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.06.2000 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 25.08.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 08.09.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 08.09.2000 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) GR, IE, LU, MC, PT | 21.09.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 09.10.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 09.10.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
28.09.2001
ADMISSIBLE Leica Camera AG xxx Solms / DE Opponent's representative Stamer, Harald Patentanwalt Dipl.-Phys. H. Stamer Postfach 2604 35536 Wetzlar / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2001/48] | |||
Opponent(s) | 01
28.09.2001
ADMISSIBLE Leica Camera AG xxx Solms / DE Opponent's representative Stamer, Harald Patentanwalt, Dipl.-Phys. H. Stamer, Postfach 2604 35536 Wetzlar / DE | 23.11.2001 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 21.02.2002 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 11.03.2002 | Communication of observations of patent proprietor (Time limit: M04) | 25.06.2002 | Reply of parties involved to observations of patent proprietor | 20.11.2002 | Date of oral proceedings | 19.12.2002 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 19.12.2002 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 28.09.2005 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 28.09.2005 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 04.11.2005 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 31.01.2006 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 24.02.2003 | Appeal received No. T0267/03 | 16.04.2003 | Statement of grounds filed | 28.09.2005 | Result of appeal procedure: maintenance in amended form | 28.09.2005 | Date of oral proceedings | 07.10.2005 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 29.06.2000 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 29.06.2000 | IE   M01   Not yet paid | 29.06.2000 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 29.06.2000 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 29.06.2000 | PT   M01   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 | [YD]DE154142 (GOERZ) [YD] 1-3 * das gesamte Dokument *; | [AY]US4436387 (SHIMIZU FUMIO [JP]) [A] 4 * column 2, line 24 - column 3, line 3 * * figure 1 * [Y] 5; | [A]EP0152056 (ZEISS CARL FA [DE], et al) [A] 1,3 * claim 1 * * figure 1 *; | [A]EP0358060 (LEICA GMBH [DE]) [A] 6 * Zusammenfassung *;; claim 1 * * figure 1 *; | [AD]DE3929825 (SWAROVSKI) [AD] 1,3 * Zusammenfassung *;; claim 1 * * figure 1 *; | [Y]DD292330 (ZEISS JENA VEB CARL [DD]) [Y] 1-3,5 * Kapitel 'Ausführungsbeispiel' *;; figure 1 *; | [A]DE4124584 (SWAROVSKI) [A] 6 * claim 1 ** figure 1 * | Opposition | - T. Seeger, feldstecher-Ferngläser im Wandel der Zeit, Edition Bresser Optik (1989), Seiten 86 und 87 |