EP2603768 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF ANGULAR ORIENTATION OF AEROSPACE PLATFORMS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.12.2021 Database last updated on 02.11.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 19.08.2020 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 09.02.2018 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.09.2024 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MT | published on 09.10.2024 [2024/41] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. Ben Gurion International Airport 70100 / IL | [2021/04] |
Former [2013/25] | For all designated states Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. Ben Gurion International Airport 70100 Lod / IL | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SHALTIEL, Rabin 9/3 Beit Hillel Street 52404 Ramat Gan / IL | 02 /
KAHANE, Allan 4 Gordon Street 76291 Rehovot / IL | [2013/25] | Representative(s) | Harrison IP Limited, et al 3 Ebor House Millfield Lane Nether Poppleton York YO26 6QY / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2021/04] | Harrison IP Limited, et al 3 Ebor House Millfield Lane Nether Poppleton, York YO26 6QY / GB | ||
Former [2013/25] | Straus, Alexander Patentanwälte Becker, Kurig, Straus Bavariastrasse 7 80336 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 11761142.6 | 04.08.2011 | [2021/04] | WO2011IL00631 | Priority number, date | IL20100207536 | 11.08.2010 Original published format: IL 20753610 | [2013/25] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | WO2012020400 | Date: | 16.02.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/07] | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2603768 | Date: | 19.06.2013 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 16.02.2012 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2013/25] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2603768 | Date: | 27.01.2021 | Language: | EN | [2021/04] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 11.10.2012 | Classification | IPC: | G01C21/16 | [2013/25] | CPC: |
G01C21/188 (EP,KR,US);
G01C21/18 (KR);
G01C21/08 (KR,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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2013/25] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR BESTIMMUNG DER WINKELORIENTIERUNG VON RAUMFLUGKÖRPERN | [2020/27] | English: | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASUREMENT OF ANGULAR ORIENTATION OF AEROSPACE PLATFORMS | [2013/25] | French: | SYSTÈME ET PROCÉDÉ DE MESURE DE L'ORIENTATION ANGULAIRE DE PLATEFORMES AÉROSPATIALES | [2013/25] |
Former [2013/25] | SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR MESSUNG EINER WINKELAUSRICHTUNG FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRTPLATTFORMEN | Entry into regional phase | 05.03.2013 | National basic fee paid | 05.03.2013 | Designation fee(s) paid | 05.03.2013 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 05.03.2013 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 05.03.2013 | Examination requested [2013/25] | 08.02.2018 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 06.08.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.10.2019 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.04.2020 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.08.2020 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.12.2020 | Fee for grant paid | 21.12.2020 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 21.12.2020 | 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 08.02.2018 | Opposition(s) | 28.10.2021 | No opposition filed within time limit [2022/01] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 29.08.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.06.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 01.07.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.07.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 14.08.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 30.08.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 29.08.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 28.08.2020 | Renewal fee patent year 10 |
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