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EP About this file: EP1087296

EP1087296 - Word width selection for SRAM cache [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  08.06.2012
Database last updated on 24.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip08.06.2012No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 11.07.2012  [2012/28]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Micron Technology, Inc.
8000 South Federal Way
Boise, ID 83716-9632 / US
[2011/31]
Former [2001/13]For all designated states
MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
8000 South Federal Way
Boise, Idaho 83716-9632 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Pawlowski, Joseph Thomas
12171 West Musket Drive
Boise, Idaho 83704 / US
 [2011/21]
Former [2001/13]01 / Pawlowski, Joseph Thomas
12170 West Musket Drive
Boise, Idaho 83704 / US
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [2008/40]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis
BERESFORD & Co. 16 High Holborn London
WC1V 6BX / GB
Former [2001/13]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis
Beresford & Co., 2-5 Warwick Court, High Holborn
London WC1R 5DH / GB
Application number, filing date00204405.513.06.1997
[2001/30]
Priority number, dateUS1996066338613.06.1996         Original published format: US 663386
[2001/13]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1087296
Date:28.03.2001
Language:EN
[2001/13]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP1087296
Date:17.04.2002
[2002/16]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1087296
Date:03.08.2011
Language:EN
[2011/31]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP01.03.2002
ClassificationIPC:G06F12/08
[2001/13]
CPC:
G06F11/1064 (EP,US); G06F12/08 (KR); G06F12/0879 (EP,US);
G06F12/0886 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [2003/02]
Former [2001/13]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE,  TR 
TitleGerman:Wortbreiteauswahl für SRAM Cachespeicher[2001/13]
English:Word width selection for SRAM cache[2001/13]
French:Sélection de la longueur du mot pour l'antémémoire SRAM[2001/13]
Examination procedure29.08.2002Examination requested  [2002/45]
05.04.2006Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
12.10.2006Reply to a communication from the examining division
10.12.2010Communication of intention to grant the patent
14.04.2011Fee for grant paid
14.04.2011Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP97929956.7  / EP0978041
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP19970929956) is  20.04.2005
Opposition(s)04.05.2012No opposition filed within time limit [2012/28]
Fees paidRenewal fee
05.01.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
05.01.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
23.05.2001Renewal fee patent year 05
24.06.2002Renewal fee patent year 06
23.06.2003Renewal fee patent year 07
23.06.2004Renewal fee patent year 08
21.06.2005Renewal fee patent year 09
28.06.2006Renewal fee patent year 10
27.06.2007Renewal fee patent year 11
25.06.2008Renewal fee patent year 12
26.06.2009Renewal fee patent year 13
25.06.2010Renewal fee patent year 14
13.06.2011Renewal fee patent year 15
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT03.08.2011
[2012/23]
Documents cited:Search[A]US5255378  (CRAWFORD JOHN H [US], et al) [A] 1-3,5,8-11,13,15 * column 2, line 35 - line 62 * * column 5, line 55 - column 6, line 31 *;
 [A]US5301296  (MOHRI ATSUSHI [JP], et al) [A] 1,8,9,15 * column 4, line 12 - line 57 *;
 [A]US5406525  (NICHOLES JAMES W [US]) [A] 1,9 * column A * * column 3, line 58 - column 4, line 49; figures 2,11 *;
 [A]US5280598  (OSAKI AKITOSHI [JP], et al) [A] 1,9 * column 3, line 40 - column 4, line 20; figures 7-9 *
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