Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Light source device for endoscope using dmd

EP 1079255 B1 · Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Google PatentsEPO PDF

Why it's free to use

  • Filed August 21, 2000 and granted October 8, 2008. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 21, 2020.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by February 21, 2026.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledAugust 21, 2000
PublishedFebruary 28, 2001
GrantedOctober 8, 2008
Term endedAugust 21, 2020
Application numberEP 00117328
Classification (CPC)A61B1/0646 +2 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2001200320052007200920112013201520172019Application filedAug 21, 2000PublishedFeb 28, 2001Patent grantedOct 8, 2008Term endedAug 21, 2020

Sources & verification

Official EPO records

Full published documentClaims, description and drawings as a PDF.EPOEuropean Patent RegisterProcedure, status, file inspection and legal events.EPOLinked open EP data recordThe bibliographic record this page is built from.EPO

Cross-check elsewhere

Google PatentsFull text, worldwide family, citing patents and legal events.patents.google.comEspacenetNational family members and their legal status.European Patent Office

Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.