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EP3379895 - DEVICE AND METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.11.2022 Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Former	The patent has been granted Status updated on 10.12.2021
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 08.08.2021
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 12.02.2020
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 24.08.2018
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 26.05.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	13.09.2024	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MT	published on 16.10.2024 [2024/42]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Sony Group Corporation 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	[2021/30]
Former [2018/39]	For all designated states Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / IWAMI, Hideki c/o SONY CORPORATION 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	02 / YAMAURA, Tomoya c/o SONY CORPORATION 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	03 / SUZUKI, Hideyuki c/o SONY CORPORATION 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	[2018/39]
Representative(s)	D Young & Co LLP 3 Noble Street London EC2V 7BQ / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2018/39]	D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
Application number, filing date	16865981.1	25.08.2016
	[2018/39]
	WO2016JP74788
Priority number, date	JP20150226906	19.11.2015 Original published format: JP 2015226906
	[2018/39]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2017085978
	Date:	26.05.2017
	Language:	JA
	[2017/21]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3379895
	Date:	26.09.2018
	Language:	EN
	[2018/39]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP3379895
	Date:	12.01.2022
	Language:	EN
	[2022/02]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	26.05.2017
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	06.07.2018
Classification	IPC:	H04W76/15, // H04W84/12, H04W92/18	[2021/29]
	CPC:	H04W76/15 (EP); H04W76/10 (US); H04W84/12 (EP,US); H04W92/18 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [2018/39]	H04W84/12, H04W92/18, H04W76/15
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 [2018/39]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Validation states	MA	Not yet paid
	MD	Not yet paid
Title	German:	VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN	[2018/39]
	English:	DEVICE AND METHOD	[2018/39]
	French:	DISPOSITIF ET PROCÉDÉ	[2018/39]
Entry into regional phase	03.05.2018	Translation filed
	12.05.2018	National basic fee paid
	12.05.2018	Search fee paid
	12.05.2018	Designation fee(s) paid
	12.05.2018	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	03.05.2018	Date on which the examining division has become responsible
	12.05.2018	Examination requested [2018/39]
	22.01.2019	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	17.02.2020	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	09.06.2020	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	09.08.2021	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	30.11.2021	Fee for grant paid
	30.11.2021	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	30.11.2021	Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Opposition(s)	13.10.2022	No opposition filed within time limit [2022/51]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	28.08.2018	Renewal fee patent year 03
	26.08.2019	Renewal fee patent year 04
	20.08.2020	Renewal fee patent year 05
	18.08.2021	Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	HU	25.08.2016
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