EP2134003 - A user selection apparatus and method for a mobile communication system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | |||
Former [2009/51] | A user selection apparatus for a mobile communication system | ||
[2011/31] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.11.2012 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 09.11.2012 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 12.12.2012 [2012/50] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Sanno Park Tower 11-1 Nagata-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 100-6150 / JP | [N/P] |
Former [2009/51] | For all designated states NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Sanno Park Tower 11-1 Nagata-cho 2-chome Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo 100-6150 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Guthy, Christian Rheinstrasse 3 80803 München / DE | 02 /
Utschick, Wolfgang Mendlstrasse 4e 85051 Ingolstadt / DE | 03 /
Dietl, Guido Garchinger Strasse 34 80805 München / DE | 04 /
Nossek, Josef A. Zugspitzstrasse 19 82393 Iffeldorf / DE | [2009/51] | Representative(s) | Zinkler, Franz, et al Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler Zinkler, Schenk & Partner mbB Patentanwälte Radlkoferstrasse 2 81373 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2009/51] | Zinkler, Franz, et al Schoppe, Zimmermann, Stöckeler & Zinkler Patentanwälte Postfach 246 82043 Pullach bei München / DE | Application number, filing date | 08010377.3 | 06.06.2008 | [2009/51] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2134003 | Date: | 16.12.2009 | Language: | EN | [2009/51] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2134003 | Date: | 28.12.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/52] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.01.2009 | Classification | IPC: | H04B7/04 | [2009/51] | CPC: |
H04B7/0452 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [2010/34] |
Former [2009/51] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Benutzerauswahlvorrichtung und -verfahren für ein mobiles Kommunikationssystem | [2011/31] | English: | A user selection apparatus and method for a mobile communication system | [2011/31] | French: | Appareil et procédé de sélection d'utilisateur pour un système de communication mobile | [2011/31] |
Former [2009/51] | Benutzerauswahlvorrichtung für ein mobiles Kommunikationssystem | ||
Former [2009/51] | A user selection apparatus for a mobile communication system | ||
Former [2009/51] | Appareil de sélection d'utilisateur pour un système de communication mobile | Examination procedure | 27.04.2009 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 27.04.2009 | Examination requested [2009/51] | 27.01.2010 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 17.06.2010 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 22.07.2010 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, TR | 04.08.2010 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.07.2011 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.11.2011 | Fee for grant paid | 15.11.2011 | Fee 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 27.01.2010 | Opposition(s) | 01.10.2012 | No opposition filed within time limit [2012/49] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.04.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 02.05.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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