Andy,
Micropatent's record of the EP has the same error, with the correct (LED manufacture) EP# at the top of each page, but with the abstract and all subsequent pages covering wastewater treatment. This actually corresponds with EP1199284A1, from the same day, WASTEWATER TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECYCLING MATERIAL FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT, from Sanyo Electric.
Oddly enough, the two have different front page drawings; the correct one (EP1199284A1) has Fig #A & 3B on the front page, while the incorrect publication has the drawing corresponding to Fig. 1 (of the wrong patent) on its front page. Very strange.
In any case, the US publication (US20020038977) is correct, so take a look at it if an equivalent would be adequate.
Keith Schreiber
Senior Information Scientist
Wyeth Research
Pearl River, NY 10965
845-602-3411
>>> <Andy.Gillanders@sealedair.com> 09/17/02 03:59PM >>>
For those of you that are interested in incorrect publications of patent
specifications - here is one just to prove that it is not just the USPTO
that mess up...
Check out EP 1199909 as obtained fron the EPO website. It seems that the
Basic bibliography (title, inventor, IPC codes etc) are correct - the
patent concerns the manufacture of an OLED Display. But everything from the
front page drawing, and abstract onwards describes a sewage plant!
Unfortunately the PCT application it is derived from is in the orginal
Japanese....
Any ideas on how to easily track down the EP translation? I would like to
read this art - but it is certainly not important enough to spend much time
or effort to find the EP translation.
Thanks
Andy Gillanders
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