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EP0008455
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0008455
| EP0008455 - Method of and apparatus for providing information as to the existence or position of objects [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 14.03.1985 Database last updated on 30.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.09.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU | published on 31.10.2007 [2007/44] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Kay, Leslie 82 Scarborough Road Christchurch 8 / NZ | [1980/05] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
see applicant ... | [1980/05] | Representative(s) | Symes, Robert G., et al FORRESTER & BOEHMERT Franz-Joseph-Strasse 38 D-80801 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1980/05] | Symes, Robert George, et al FORRESTER & BOEHMERT Franz-Joseph-Strasse 38 D-80801 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 79103049.7 | 20.08.1979 | [1980/05] | Priority number, date | NZ19920001881 | 21.08.1978 Original published format: NZ 188192 | [1980/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0008455 | Date: | 05.03.1980 | Language: | EN | [1980/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0008455 | Date: | 14.03.1984 | Language: | EN | [1984/11] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.12.1979 | Classification | IPC: | G01S7/52, A61F9/08, G01S15/34 | [1980/05] | CPC: |
G09B21/007 (EP,US);
G01S15/34 (EP,US);
Y10S367/91 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, FR, GB, IT, LU, NL [1980/05] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Einrichtung zum Anzeigen des Vorhandenseins oder der Lage von Objekten | [1980/05] | English: | Method of and apparatus for providing information as to the existence or position of objects | [1980/05] | French: | Procédé et dispositif pour donner des informations sur l'existence ou la position d'objets | [1980/05] | File destroyed: | 15.01.2000 | Examination procedure | 01.09.1980 | Examination requested [1980/24] | 11.11.1981 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M05) | 17.03.1982 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 28.09.1982 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02) | 23.11.1982 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.02.1983 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 14.07.1983 | Fee for grant paid | 14.07.1983 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 17.08.1983 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | Opposition(s) | 15.12.1984 | No opposition filed within time limit [1985/20] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 19.08.1981 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.08.1982 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 16.08.1983 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | BE | 14.03.1984 | IT | 14.03.1984 | NL | 14.03.1984 | LU | 31.08.1984 | [1999/52] |
| Former [1999/42] | BE | 14.03.1984 | |
| IT | 14.03.1984 | ||
| NL | 14.03.1984 | ||
| Former [1985/23] | BE | 14.03.1984 | |
| NL | 14.03.1984 | ||
| Former [1985/16] | BE | 14.03.1984 | Documents cited: | Search | DE435666 [ ] (EN COMMANDITE SIMPLE THOUMYRE); | US3172075 [ ] (LESLIE KAY); | US3337839 [ ] (ARTHUR NELKIN); | US3366922 [ ] (LESLIE KAY); | US3594823 [ ] (COLLINS CARTER C, et al); | DE1623491 [ ]; | US3742433 [ ] (KAY L, et al); | GB1330351 [ ] (BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORP LTD); | DE2333531 [ ] (RAYTHEON CO); | US3824531 [ ] (WALSH G); | US4020446 [ ] (IIDA MASAJIRO, et al) | [ ] - RADIO AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEER, Vol. 44, No. 11, November 1974, London L. KAY. "A sonar aid to enhance spatial perception of the blind: engineering design and evaluation" pages 605 to 627. | Examination | GB546202 | US2724817 | DE2435666 | - M.I. Skolnik, Radar Handbook, McGraw-Hill 1970, pages 21-38 |