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EP1190343 - MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 09.09.2011 Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	09.09.2011	Refusal of application	published on 12.10.2011 [2011/41]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York West 116th Street and Broadway New York New York 10027 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2002/13]	For all designated states THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK West 116th Street and Broadway New York, New York 10027 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / MCKEOWN, Kathleen, R. 20 Prospect Road Wayne, NJ 07470 / US
	02 / BARZILAY, Regina 548 Riverside Drive, Apt. 4B New York, NY 10027 / US
	[2002/13]
Representative(s)	Lawrence, John Barker Brettell LLP 100 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 8QQ / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2011/23]	Lawrence, John Barker Brettell LLP 100 Hagley Road Edgbaston Birmingham B16 8QQ / GB
Former [2002/13]	Lucas, Brian Ronald Lucas & Co. 135 Westhall Road Warlingham Surrey CR6 9HJ / GB
Application number, filing date	00919318.6	18.02.2000
	[2002/13]
	WO2000US04118
Priority number, date	US19990120659P	19.02.1999 Original published format: US 120659 P
	[2002/13]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	WO0049517
	Date:	24.08.2000
	Language:	EN
	[2000/34]
	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP1190343
	Date:	27.03.2002
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 24.08.2000 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2002/13]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	30.11.2000
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	07.07.2006
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/10, G06F17/27, G06F15/00	[2002/13]
	CPC:	G06F16/345 (EP); G06F40/194 (EP); G06F40/35 (EP)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [2002/13]
Title	German:	MULTI-DOKUMENT ZUSAMMENFASSUNGS-SYSTEM UND -VERFAHREN	[2002/13]
	English:	MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD	[2002/13]
	French:	SYSTEME ET PROCEDE DE RESUME POUR PLUSIEURS DOCUMENTS	[2002/13]
Entry into regional phase	24.08.2001	National basic fee paid
	24.08.2001	Search fee paid
	24.08.2001	Designation fee(s) paid
	24.08.2001	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	05.09.2000	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	24.08.2001	Examination requested [2002/13]
	19.09.2006	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	29.03.2007	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.06.2008	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	20.01.2009	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time
	23.03.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	22.03.2011	Application refused, date of legal effect [2011/41]
	22.03.2011	Date of oral proceedings
	30.05.2011	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2011/41]
	30.05.2011	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
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 is 19.09.2006
Request for further processing for:	The application is deemed to be withdrawn due to failure to reply to the examination report
	23.03.2009	Request for further processing filed
	23.03.2009	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment)
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	25.02.2002	Renewal fee patent year 03
	25.02.2003	Renewal fee patent year 04
	23.02.2004	Renewal fee patent year 05
	22.02.2005	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.02.2006	Renewal fee patent year 07
	27.02.2007	Renewal fee patent year 08
	25.02.2008	Renewal fee patent year 09
	26.02.2009	Renewal fee patent year 10
	24.02.2010	Renewal fee patent year 11
	23.02.2011	Renewal fee patent year 12
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Documents cited:	Search	[X] - MCKEOWN K ET AL ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY, "GENERATING SUMMARIES OF MULTIPLE NEWS ARTICLES", SIGIR '95. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. SEATTLE, JUL. 9 - 13, 1995, SIGIR. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELO, (19950709), ISBN 0-89791-714-6, pages 74 - 82, XP000520957 [X] 1,8,16 * abstract * * page 74, column R, line 1 - page 80, column L, line 19 * * figures 2,5-9 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/215206.215334
		[A] - MANI INDERJEET ET AL, "Multi-document summarization by graph search and matching", COMPENDEX, ENGINEERING INFORMATION, INC., NEW YORK, NY, US, Database accession no. EIX98354279423, XP002384478 [A] 1-22 * abstract * * page 3, column L, line 34 - page 3, column R, line 35 * * figure 5 *
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