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EP About this file: EP0961920

EP0961920 - IMAGING SPECTROMETER [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  18.03.2005
Database last updated on 03.06.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip10.02.2006Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): NL
published on 29.03.2006  [2006/13]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sira Electro-Optics Ltd.
South Hill Chislehurst
Kent BR7 5EH / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/49]For all designated states
Sira Electro-Optics Ltd.
South Hill
Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5EH / GB
Inventor(s)01 / LOBB, Daniel Richard
25 Marlings Park Avenue
Chislehurst, Kent BR7 6QN / GB
[1999/49]
Representative(s)Brookes IP
Windsor House
6-10 Mount Ephraim Road
Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1EE / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/49]BROOKES & MARTIN
High Holborn House 52/54 High Holborn
London, WC1V 6SE / GB
Application number, filing date98907058.624.02.1998
[1999/49]
WO1998GB00595
Priority number, dateGB1997000377024.02.1997         Original published format: GB 9703770
[1999/49]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9837389
Date:27.08.1998
Language:EN
[1998/34]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0961920
Date:08.12.1999
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 27.08.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1999/49]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0961920
Date:12.05.2004
Language:EN
[2004/20]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP27.08.1998
ClassificationIPC:G01J3/28, G01J3/14
[1999/49]
CPC:
G01J3/14 (EP,US); G01J3/28 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesBE,   CH,   DE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   NL [1999/49]
TitleGerman:ABBILDUNGS-SPEKTROMETER[1999/49]
English:IMAGING SPECTROMETER[1999/49]
French:SPECTROMETRE D'IMAGERIE[1999/49]
Entry into regional phase13.08.1999National basic fee paid 
13.08.1999Designation fee(s) paid 
13.08.1999Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure23.09.1998Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
13.08.1999Examination requested  [1999/49]
10.04.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
14.08.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
14.11.2003Communication of intention to grant the patent
12.03.2004Fee for grant paid
12.03.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)15.02.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/18]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.02.2000Renewal fee patent year 03
22.02.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
26.02.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
22.02.2003Renewal fee patent year 06
25.02.2004Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipCH12.05.2004
FI12.05.2004
LI12.05.2004
NL12.05.2004
ES23.08.2004
[2006/13]
Former [2005/02]CH12.05.2004
FI12.05.2004
LI12.05.2004
ES23.08.2004
Former [2004/51]CH12.05.2004
LI12.05.2004
Cited inInternational search[Y]WO8800688  (SANTA BARBARA RES CENTER [US]) [Y] 1-5,8,9 * page 5, paragraph 1 *;
 [YA]FR625906  (CHARLES JEAN VICTOR FÉRY) [Y] 1-5,8,9 * page 1, column 2, line 45 - page 2, line 24 * * figure 3 * [A] 11;
 [AD]US5127728  (WARREN DAVID W [US], et al) [AD] 11-14 * column 2, line 60 - line 68 * * column 3, line 19 - line 62 * * figure 1 *;
 [A]US2866374  (EDWARD LEWIS ROBERT, et al) [A] 11-14 * figure 6; claim 1 *;
 [A]US4103989  (ROSIN SEYMOUR) [A] 11-14 * column 2, line 22 - column 3, line 17 * * figure 7 *
 [A]  - WILSON R N, "DIE ANWENDUNG VON APLANATISCHEN PRISMEN IN MONOCHROMATOREN UND SPEKTROGRAPHEN", OPTIK, (1969), vol. 29, no. 1, pages 17 - 29, XP000195644 [A] 1,11 * the whole document *
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