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EP About this file: EP2395671

EP2395671 - Controlling apparatus and controlling method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  07.02.2014
Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.02.2014No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 12.03.2014  [2014/11]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sony Corporation
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
[2011/50]
Inventor(s)01 / Noda, Takuro
c/o Sony Corporation
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
02 / Takaku, Yoshiyuki
c/o Sony Corporation
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
03 / Takenaka, Yoshiaki
c/o Sony Corporation
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
04 / Inoue, Hiraku
c/o Sony Corporation
7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo / JP
 [2011/50]
Representative(s)Melzer, Wolfgang
Mitscherlich PartmbB
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Sonnenstrasse 33
80331 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2013/14]Melzer, Wolfgang
Mitscherlich & Partner
Sonnenstrasse 33
80331 München / DE
Former [2011/50]Melzer, Wolfgang
Mitscherlich & Partner Sonnenstrasse 33
80331 München / DE
Application number, filing date10182627.920.02.2001
[2011/50]
Priority number, dateJP2000005051322.02.2000         Original published format: JP 2000050513
[2011/50]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2395671
Date:14.12.2011
Language:EN
[2011/50]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2395671
Date:03.04.2013
Language:EN
[2013/14]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP14.11.2011
ClassificationIPC:H04B1/20
[2011/50]
CPC:
H04B1/205 (EP,US); G11B31/00 (KR)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2011/50]
TitleGerman:Steuerungsvorrichtung und Steuerungsverfahren[2011/50]
English:Controlling apparatus and controlling method[2011/50]
French:Appareil et procédé de contrôle[2011/50]
Examination procedure29.09.2010Examination requested  [2011/50]
14.06.2012Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
31.10.2012Communication of intention to grant the patent
25.01.2013Fee for grant paid
25.01.2013Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP01104066.4  / EP1128562
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 (EP20010104066) is  14.11.2005
Opposition(s)06.01.2014No opposition filed within time limit [2014/11]
Fees paidRenewal fee
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 03
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 04
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 05
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 06
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 07
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 08
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 09
29.09.2010Renewal fee patent year 10
22.02.2011Renewal fee patent year 11
22.02.2012Renewal fee patent year 12
21.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 13
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Documents cited:Search[A]EP0841776  (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1-15 * column 5, line 9 - column 6, line 15 * * column 7, line 11 - line 49; figures 5-7,9 *;
 [A]EP0457673  (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1-15 * column 13, line 40 - column 14, line 33; figures 1,2a; claim 8 *;
 [A]EP0756276  (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1-15 * the whole document *
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