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In the patent application for Chinese patent CN1470762 I found the following note:
Sep 3, 2008 C02 Deemed withdrawal of patent application after publication (patent law 2001)
I need to know what that means and what effect it has on other patents including as prior art.
If the patent have been published it can be used a prior art, regardless of the status of the application.
Filing patents without follow up is sometime done as a defensive measure -- See also the answers here
That means that the patent application was abandoned in China. But as Soren points out, this does not change its value as prior art.
prior-art-request cn1470762 or ask your own question. 
