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EP2823423 - GENERATING A CIRCADIAN TIME DIFFERENCE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  19.08.2022
Database last updated on 13.07.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  10.09.2021
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  11.05.2021
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  14.12.2018
Most recent event   Tooltip14.06.2024Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): TR		published on 17.07.2024 [2024/29]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Koninklijke Philips N.V.
High Tech Campus 52
5656 AG Eindhoven / NL
[2020/12]
Former [2015/03]For all designated states
Koninklijke Philips N.V.
High Tech Campus 5
5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
Inventor(s)01 / PRONK, Serverius Petrus Paulus
c/o High Tech Campus
Building 44
NL-5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
02 / MÜSCH, Guido Josef
c/o High Tech Campus
Building 44
NL-5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
03 / MAASS, Henning
c/o High Tech Campus
Building 44
NL-5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
04 / AUBERT, Xavier Louis Marie Antoine
c/o High Tech Campus
Building 44
NL-5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
05 / MOST, Elsa Inger Stapel
c/o High Tech Campus
Building 44
NL-5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
 [2015/03]
Representative(s)Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
High Tech Campus 52
5656 AG Eindhoven / NL
[N/P]
Former [2021/41]Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
High Tech Campus 5
5656 AE Eindhoven / NL
Former [2015/03]Steffen, Thomas
Philips
Intellectual Property & Standards
P.O. Box 220
5600 AE Eindhoven / NL
Application number, filing date13718904.907.03.2013
[2021/41]
WO2013IB51803
Priority number, dateUS201261607649P07.03.2012         Original published format: US 201261607649 P
[2015/03]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2013132454
Date:12.09.2013
Language:EN
[2013/37]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2823423
Date:14.01.2015
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 12.09.2013 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2015/03]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2823423
Date:13.10.2021
Language:EN
[2021/41]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP12.09.2013
ClassificationIPC:G16H50/30, A61B5/00, A61B5/11
[2021/20]
CPC:
A61B5/1118 (EP,US); G09B19/12 (US); A61B5/4857 (EP,US);
G16H50/30 (EP,US); A61B2560/0242 (EP,US); A61B5/742 (EP,US)
Former IPC [2015/03]G06F19/00
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Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
TitleGerman:ERZEUGUNG EINER ZIRKADIANEN ZEITDIFFERENZ[2015/03]
English:GENERATING A CIRCADIAN TIME DIFFERENCE[2015/03]
French:GÉNÉRATION D'UNE DIFFÉRENCE D'INSTANT CIRCADIEN[2015/03]
Entry into regional phase07.10.2014National basic fee paid 
07.10.2014Designation fee(s) paid 
07.10.2014Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure07.10.2014Examination requested  [2015/03]
26.03.2015Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
18.12.2018Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
23.04.2019Reply to a communication from the examining division
06.08.2019Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
24.01.2020Reply to a communication from the examining division
19.11.2020Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M01)
14.12.2020Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.05.2021Communication of intention to grant the patent
01.09.2021Fee for grant paid
01.09.2021Fee for publishing/printing paid
01.09.2021Receipt 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  18.12.2018
Opposition(s)14.07.2022No opposition filed within time limit [2022/38]
Fees paidRenewal fee
31.03.2015Renewal fee patent year 03
31.03.2016Renewal fee patent year 04
31.03.2017Renewal fee patent year 05
03.04.2018Renewal fee patent year 06
01.04.2019Renewal fee patent year 07
31.03.2020Renewal fee patent year 08
31.03.2021Renewal fee patent year 09
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