EP2651185 - Flash driver to limit a load current of a flash and method to limit a load current of a flash driver [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 07.09.2018 Database last updated on 12.11.2024 | |
Former | The patent has been granted Status updated on 29.09.2017 | ||
Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 16.05.2017 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 12.12.2016 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.07.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 19.08.2020 [2020/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ams AG Schloss Premstätten Tobelbader Str. 30 8141 Premstätten / AT | [2017/44] |
Former [2013/42] | For all designated states austriamicrosystems AG Schloss Premstätten 8141 Unterpremstätten / AT | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Trattler, Peter Hofstättenweg 13 8054 Seiersberg-Pirka / AT | 02 /
Waser, Karl Georg Raiffeisenstr.24 8141 Premstätten / AT | [2017/44] |
Former [2013/42] | 01 /
Trattler, Peter Josef-Lanner-Strasse 28 8055 Graz / AT | ||
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Waser, Karl Georg Griesgasse 20/3 8020 Graz / AT | Representative(s) | Epping - Hermann - Fischer Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Schloßschmidstraße 5 80639 München / DE | [2017/44] |
Former [2013/42] | Epping - Hermann - Fischer Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Ridlerstrasse 55 80339 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 12164140.1 | 13.04.2012 | [2013/42] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2651185 | Date: | 16.10.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2651185 | Date: | 01.11.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/44] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.09.2012 | Classification | IPC: | H05B33/08 | [2013/42] | CPC: |
H05B45/38 (EP,US);
G03B15/05 (US);
H05B45/44 (EP,US);
Y02B20/30 (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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2017/44] |
Former [2013/42] | 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 | Title | German: | Blitzlichttreiber zur Begrenzung des Laststroms eines Blitzlichts und Verfahren zur Begrenzung des Laststroms eines Blitzlichttreibers | [2013/42] | English: | Flash driver to limit a load current of a flash and method to limit a load current of a flash driver | [2013/42] | French: | Pilote flash afin de limiter un courant de charge d'un flash et procédé pour limiter un courant de charge d'un pilote flash | [2013/42] | Examination procedure | 21.03.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 21.03.2014 | Examination requested [2014/18] | 31.03.2016 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.07.2016 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.08.2016 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 09.12.2016 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.12.2016 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.04.2017 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.05.2017 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.09.2017 | Fee for grant paid | 21.09.2017 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 21.09.2017 | 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 31.03.2016 | Opposition(s) | 02.08.2018 | No opposition filed within time limit [2018/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.04.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.04.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 20.04.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.04.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | HU | 13.04.2012 | AL | 01.11.2017 | AT | 01.11.2017 | CY | 01.11.2017 | CZ | 01.11.2017 | DK | 01.11.2017 | EE | 01.11.2017 | ES | 01.11.2017 | FI | 01.11.2017 | HR | 01.11.2017 | IT | 01.11.2017 | LT | 01.11.2017 | LV | 01.11.2017 | MC | 01.11.2017 | MK | 01.11.2017 | NL | 01.11.2017 | PL | 01.11.2017 | PT | 01.11.2017 | RO | 01.11.2017 | RS | 01.11.2017 | SE | 01.11.2017 | SI | 01.11.2017 | SK | 01.11.2017 | SM | 01.11.2017 | TR | 01.11.2017 | BG | 01.02.2018 | NO | 01.02.2018 | GR | 02.02.2018 | IS | 01.03.2018 | GB | 13.04.2018 | IE | 13.04.2018 | LU | 13.04.2018 | MT | 13.04.2018 | BE | 30.04.2018 | CH | 30.04.2018 | FR | 30.04.2018 | LI | 30.04.2018 | [2020/34] |
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