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EP About this file: EP1296159

EP1296159 - Method for measuring distance [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.05.2014
Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip09.05.2014Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 11.06.2014  [2014/24]
09.05.2014No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 11.06.2014  [2014/24]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Postfach 30 02 20
70442 Stuttgart / DE
[2003/13]
Inventor(s)01 / Schlick, Michael
Woeschbacher Strasse 77
76372 Pfinztal / DE
02 / Richter, Karl-Heinz
Blammerbergstrasse 37
71263 Weil Der Stadt / DE
03 / Schmid, Dirk
Rahaldenstrasse 12
75397 Simmozheim / DE
 [2003/13]
Application number, filing date02015317.710.07.2002
[2003/13]
Priority number, dateDE200114609519.09.2001         Original published format: DE 10146095
[2003/13]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1296159
Date:26.03.2003
Language:DE
[2003/13]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP1296159
Date:14.01.2004
[2004/03]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1296159
Date:03.07.2013
Language:DE
[2013/27]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP27.11.2003
ClassificationIPC:G01S15/93, G01S15/87, G01S7/527
[2003/13]
CPC:
G01S15/931 (EP); G01S15/003 (EP); G01S15/86 (EP);
G01S15/876 (EP); G01S7/527 (EP); G01S13/86 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [2004/41]
Former [2003/13]AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE,  SK,  TR 
TitleGerman:Verfahren zur Abstandsmessung[2003/13]
English:Method for measuring distance[2003/13]
French:Procédé de mesure de distance[2003/13]
Examination procedure14.07.2004Examination requested  [2004/38]
24.08.2009Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
04.02.2010Reply to a communication from the examining division
01.06.2011Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
21.09.2011Reply to a communication from the examining division
05.03.2013Date of oral proceedings
14.03.2013Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
05.04.2013Communication of intention to grant the patent
17.05.2013Fee for grant paid
17.05.2013Fee for publishing/printing paid
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  24.08.2009
Opposition(s)04.04.2014No opposition filed within time limit [2014/24]
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.08.2004Renewal fee patent year 03
01.08.2005Renewal fee patent year 04
31.07.2006Renewal fee patent year 05
31.07.2007Renewal fee patent year 06
17.03.2008Renewal fee patent year 07
31.07.2009Renewal fee patent year 08
02.08.2010Renewal fee patent year 09
01.08.2011Renewal fee patent year 10
31.07.2012Renewal fee patent year 11
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT03.07.2013
[2014/24]
Documents cited:Search[Y]DD203781  (PUSTLAUK GERD) [Y] 7,8 * the whole document *;
 [A]US4451909  (KODERA MASAO [JP], et al) [A] 1-4,10,12* the whole document *;
 [X]EP0142733  (NISSAN MOTOR [JP]) [X] 1,3,4,6,10,12 * the whole document *;
 [X]US4677599  (OBAYASHI HIROAKI [JP], et al) [X] 1,3,4,6,10,12 * page 1, line 66 - page 3, line 14 *;
 [A]US5177711  (YAMAGUCHI YUKIO [JP], et al) [A] 1,3,4,10,12 * page 5, line 20 - page 7, line 23; figures 7-9 *;
 [XY]US5793704  (FREGER DAVID [IL]) [X] 1-4,6,7,9,10,12 * the whole document * [Y] 5,7,8;
 [Y]EP0971242  (CAMBRIDGE CONSULTANTS [GB]) [Y] 5 * page 3, column 4, line 12 - page 4, column 5, line 19 *
ExaminationJPH04238286
 DE4433957
 DE19645339
 DE19842250
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