EP2731360 - Automatic audio enhancement system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.12.2020 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | |
Former | The patent has been granted Status updated on 17.01.2020 | ||
Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 19.09.2019 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 13.07.2018 | ||
Former | Request for examination was made Status updated on 14.07.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Harman International Industries, Inc. 400 Atlantic Street, 15th Floor Stamford, CT 06901 / US | [2014/20] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lakkundi, Ravi Number 315, 11th Main Happy Valley Layout, Uttarhalli 560061 Bangalore / IN | 02 /
Hampiholi, Vallabha Accord 104, HM Symphony Kasavanahalli, Off Sarjapur Road 560035 Bangalore / IN | [2014/20] | Representative(s) | Bertsch, Florian Oliver Kraus & Weisert Patentanwälte PartGmbB Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 80539 München / DE | [2020/08] |
Former [2014/20] | Bertsch, Florian Oliver Kraus & Weisert Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Thomas-Wimmer-Ring 15 80539 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 13191724.7 | 06.11.2013 | [2014/20] | Priority number, date | US201213673637 | 09.11.2012 Original published format: US201213673637 | [2014/20] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2731360 | Date: | 14.05.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/20] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2731360 | Date: | 04.01.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2731360 | Date: | 19.02.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/08] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.12.2016 | Classification | IPC: | H04S7/00 | [2014/20] | CPC: |
H04S7/302 (EP,US);
H04R3/12 (US);
H04S7/303 (US);
H04R2499/13 (EP,US);
H04S2400/13 (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 [2017/33] |
Former [2014/20] | 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: | Automatisches Audioverbesserungssystem | [2014/20] | English: | Automatic audio enhancement system | [2014/20] | French: | Système d'amélioration audio automatique | [2014/20] | Examination procedure | 04.07.2017 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 04.07.2017 | Examination requested [2017/33] | 11.07.2018 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.11.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.09.2019 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.01.2020 | Fee for grant paid | 08.01.2020 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 08.01.2020 | 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 11.07.2018 | Opposition(s) | 20.11.2020 | No opposition filed within time limit [2021/04] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.11.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 28.11.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.11.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.11.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 20.11.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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