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EP3538939 - ILLUMINATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR ILLUMINATION IN A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Examination is in progress Status updated on 09.12.2022 Database last updated on 13.12.2024
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 16.08.2019
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 18.05.2018
Former	unknown Status updated on 24.11.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	27.11.2024	New entry: Renewal fee paid
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH CPTD Ernst-Leitz-Strasse 17-37 35578 Wetzlar / DE
	[2019/38]
Inventor(s)	01 / FAHRBACH, Florian Eva-Hermann-Str. 21 68167 Mannheim / DE
	[2019/38]
Representative(s)	Schaumburg und Partner Patentanwälte mbB Mauerkircherstraße 31 81679 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2019/38]	Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE
Application number, filing date	17797926.7	10.11.2017
	[2019/38]
	WO2017EP78929
Priority number, date	DE201610121626	11.11.2016 Original published format: DE102016121626
	LU20160093332	02.12.2016 Original published format: LU 93332
	[2019/38]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2018087312
	Date:	17.05.2018
	Language:	DE
	[2018/20]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3538939
	Date:	18.09.2019
	Language:	DE
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 17.05.2018 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2019/38]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	EP	17.05.2018
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	13.12.2022
Classification	IPC:	G02B21/00, G02B21/06	[2019/38]
	CPC:	G02B21/06 (EP); G02B21/0032 (US); G02B21/006 (EP)
Designated contracting states	AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2019/38]
Title	German:	BELEUCHTUNGSANORDNUNG UND VERFAHREN FÜR DIE BELEUCHTUNG IN EINEM MIKROSKOP UND MIKROSKOP	[2019/38]
	English:	ILLUMINATION ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR ILLUMINATION IN A MICROSCOPE AND MICROSCOPE	[2019/38]
	French:	SYSTÈME D'ÉCLAIRAGE ET PROCÉDÉ D'ÉCLAIRAGE DANS UN MICROSCOPE AINSI QUE MICROSCOPE	[2019/38]
Entry into regional phase	23.05.2019	National basic fee paid
	23.05.2019	Designation fee(s) paid
	23.05.2019	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	23.05.2019	Examination requested [2019/38]
	23.05.2019	Date on which the examining division has become responsible
	02.01.2020	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	13.12.2022	Despatch of a communication from the examining division to which search results under Rule 164(2) EPC are annexed (Time limit: M06) [2023/02]
	13.12.2022	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	23.06.2023	Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	28.11.2019	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.11.2020	Renewal fee patent year 04
	25.11.2021	Renewal fee patent year 05
	24.11.2022	Renewal fee patent year 06
	24.11.2023	Renewal fee patent year 07
	26.11.2024	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Cited in	International search	[XI]DE102007063274 (UNIV ALBERT LUDWIGS FREIBURG [DE], et al) [X] 1,2,4,14 * abstract * * paragraph [0034] - paragraph [0035] * * figure 4 * [I] 3;
		[Y]US7709809 (KEMPE MICHAEL [DE]) [Y] 6,7 * abstract * * column 3, line 62 - column 4, line 6 *;
		[Y]EP2657747 (DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCH [DE]) [Y] 6,8,9 * abstract ** paragraph [0017] - paragraph [0019] *;
		[XYI]WO2014026683 (LEICA MICROSYSTEMS [DE]) [X] 1,5,14,15 * abstract * * page 7, line 6 - line 27 * * page 11, line 11 - line 21 * * page 15, line 10 - line 14 * * page 16, line 4 - line 15 * * figures 1, 6 * [Y] 6-9 [I] 2-4;
		[XI]EP3081975 (OLYMPUS CORP [JP]) [X] 1,14 * abstract * * paragraph [0026] - paragraph [0028] * * figures 5-7 * [I] 2-4

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