EP2550813 - MULTICHANNEL SOUND REPRODUCTION METHOD AND DEVICE [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 15.09.2017 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.07.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 12.08.2020 [2020/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Harman Becker Gépkocsirendszer Gyártó Korlátolt Felelösségü Társaság Holland fasor 19 H-8000 Székesfehérvár / HU | [2015/49] |
Former [2013/05] | For all designated states Bang & Olufsen A/S Peter Bangs Vej 15 7600 Struer / DK | Inventor(s) | 01 /
HEGARTY, Patrick James Hoejlundparken 77 DK-7600 Struer / DK | 02 /
PEDERSEN, Jan Abildgaard Folden 22 DK-7500 Holstebro / DK | [2013/05] | Representative(s) | Westphal, Mussgnug & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Werinherstrasse 79 81541 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2016/45] | Westphal, Mussgnug & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse 26 80331 München / DE | ||
Former [2013/05] | Edlund, Fabian Awapatent AB Södra Hamngatan 37-41 P.O. Box 11 394 404 28 Göteborg / SE | Application number, filing date | 10765607.6 | 28.09.2010 | [2016/45] | WO2010EP64369 | Priority number, date | DK20100000251 | 26.03.2010 Original published format: DK 201000251 | [2013/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2011116839 | Date: | 29.09.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/39] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2550813 | Date: | 30.01.2013 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 29.09.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2013/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2550813 | Date: | 09.11.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/45] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 29.09.2011 | Classification | IPC: | H04S5/00 | [2013/05] | CPC: |
H04S5/00 (EP,KR,US);
H04R2499/13 (EP,US);
H04S2400/05 (EP,US);
H04S2400/09 (EP,US);
H04S2400/11 (EP,US);
H04S2420/01 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2013/05] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | RS | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR MEHRKANALTONWIEDERGABE | [2013/05] | English: | MULTICHANNEL SOUND REPRODUCTION METHOD AND DEVICE | [2013/05] | French: | DISPOSITIF ET PROCÉDÉ DE REPRODUCTION DE SONS MULTIVOIE | [2013/05] | Entry into regional phase | 29.08.2012 | National basic fee paid | 29.08.2012 | Designation fee(s) paid | 29.08.2012 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 29.08.2012 | Examination requested [2013/05] | 21.06.2013 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the Extended European Search Report/Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority/International Preliminary Examination Report/Supplementary international search report not received in time | 29.08.2013 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 25.08.2015 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.02.2016 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.05.2016 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.09.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 15.09.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 15.09.2016 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 25.08.2015 | Opposition(s) | 10.08.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/42] | Request for further processing for: | 29.08.2013 | Request for further processing filed | 29.08.2013 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 12.09.2013 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.09.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 06.09.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 02.09.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 01.09.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 27.09.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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