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EP1503295 - TEXT GENERATION METHOD AND TEXT GENERATION DEVICE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 02.02.2018 Database last updated on 22.01.2025
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 29.10.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	02.02.2018	Application deemed to be withdrawn	published on 07.03.2018 [2018/10]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Independent Administrative Institution 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-0015 / JP
	[2009/01]
Former [2005/05]	For all designated states Communications Research Laboratory, Independent Administrative Institution 4-2-1 Nukui-kitamachi Koganei-Shi, Tokyo 184-0015 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / UCHIMOTO, K., Comm. Res. Lab., Indep. Adm. Instit. 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi Koganei-shi, Tokyo / JP
	02 / ISAHARA, H., Comm. Res. Lab., Indep. Adm. Instit. 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi Koganei-shi, Tokyo / JP
	03 / SEKINE, S, Computer Science Dep., New York Univ. 715 Broadway, 7th floor New York, NY 10003 / US
	[2005/05]
Representative(s)	Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street London EC2A 2ES / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2005/05]	Finnie, Peter John Gill Jennings & Every, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date	03744509.5	04.03.2003
	[2005/05]
	WO2003JP02529
Priority number, date	JP20020074270	18.03.2002 Original published format: JP 2002074270
	[2005/05]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO03079224
	Date:	25.09.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/39]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1503295
	Date:	02.02.2005
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 25.09.2003 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2005/05]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	25.09.2003
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	25.09.2008
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/28	[2005/05]
	CPC:	G06F40/53 (EP,US); G06F40/56 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	FR, GB [2005/05]
Title	German:	TEXTERZEUGUNGSVERFAHREN UND TEXTERZEUGUNGSEINRICHTUNG	[2005/05]
	English:	TEXT GENERATION METHOD AND TEXT GENERATION DEVICE	[2005/05]
	French:	PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF DE GENERATION DE TEXTE	[2005/05]
Entry into regional phase	21.09.2004	Translation filed
	07.10.2004	National basic fee paid
	07.10.2004	Search fee paid
	07.10.2004	Designation fee(s) paid
	07.10.2004	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	07.10.2004	Examination requested [2005/05]
	27.04.2009	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	16.10.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	17.01.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	18.07.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	23.07.2013	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	31.10.2013	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.10.2017	Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2018/10]
	30.10.2017	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time [2018/10]
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 27.04.2009
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	14.03.2005	Renewal fee patent year 03
	09.03.2006	Renewal fee patent year 04
	14.03.2007	Renewal fee patent year 05
	14.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 06
	13.03.2009	Renewal fee patent year 07
	15.03.2010	Renewal fee patent year 08
	15.03.2011	Renewal fee patent year 09
	14.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 10
	26.03.2013	Renewal fee patent year 11
	21.03.2014	Renewal fee patent year 12
	24.03.2015	Renewal fee patent year 13
	25.03.2016	Renewal fee patent year 14
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	31.03.2017	15 M06 Not yet paid
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Documents cited:	Search	[E]EP1469398 (NAT INST INF & COMM TECH [JP]) [E] 1-10 * the whole document *;
		[PX] - KIYOTAKA UCHIMOTO, SATOSHI SEKINE, HITOSHI ISAHARA, "Text Generation from Keywords", HOWARD INTERNATIONAL HOUSE AND ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIPEI, TAIWAN, (20020824), URL: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/554989.html, (20081112), XP002495564 [PX] 1-10 * the whole document *
		[A] - KOJI KAKIGAHARA & TERUAKI AIZAWA, "Completion of Japanese Sentences by Inferring Function Words from Content Words", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, Budapest, Hungary, vol. 1, (19880822), pages 291 - 296, URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.14.7811, (20080912), XP002495565 [A] 1-10 * abstract * * sections 1-4, 7 *
		[A] - LANGKILDE I ET AL, "Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge", INTERNET CITATION, (1998), URL: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P98/P98-1116.pdf, (20031023), XP002259075 [A] 1-10 * abstract *
		[A] - ADAM BERGER & JOHN LAFFERTY, "Information retrieval as statistical translation", IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1999 ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, Berkeley, CA, USA, (19990815), pages 222 - 229, URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=312681&dl=, (20080912), XP002495566 [A] 1-10 * abstract *
	International search	[Y]JPH05250407 (HITACHI LTD);
		[Y]JPH07249039 (RICOH KK)
		[Y] - KIYOTAKA UCHIMOTO, HITOSHI ISAHARA, "Saidai entropy model o mochiita nihongo text no ikkan shori", THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE KENKYU SHIRYO SIG-CII-2000-NOV-09, (20001114), XP002969566
		[Y] - KIYOTAKA UCHIMOTO ET AL., "Corpus kara no gojun no gakushu", INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY OF JAPAN KENKYU HOKOKU 2000-NL-135-8, (20000128), vol. 2000, no. 11, pages 55 - 62, XP002969567
	by applicant	JP2001395618
		EP1469398

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