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EP0118182 - Pattern processing method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Former [1984/37]Pattern processing system
[1990/23]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  28.03.1991
Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip28.03.1991No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 15.05.1991 [1991/20]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
PATTERN PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES INC.
511 Eleventh Avenue South, M.S. 424 Minneapolis
Minnesota 55415 / US
[N/P]
Former [1984/37]For all designated states
PATTERN PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES INC.
511 Eleventh Avenue South, M.S. 424
Minneapolis Minnesota 55415 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Werth, Larry J.
4490 Oak Chase Way
Eagan Minnesota 55123 / US
[1984/37]
Representative(s)Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al
Boult Wade Tennant
Verulam Gardens
70 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8BT / GB
[N/P]
Former [1988/24]Cross, Rupert Edward Blount, et al
BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street
London EC4A 1PQ / GB
Former [1984/37]Horton, Andrew Robert Grant
BOWLES HORTON Felden House Dower Mews High Street
Berkhamsted Hertfordshire HP4 2BL / GB
Application number, filing date84300442.525.01.1984
[1984/37]
Priority number, dateUS1983046500808.02.1983         Original published format: US 465008
[1984/37]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0118182
Date:12.09.1984
Language:EN
[1984/37]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0118182
Date:16.07.1986
Language:EN
[1986/29]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0118182
Date:06.06.1990
Language:EN
[1990/23]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP29.05.1986
ClassificationIPC:G06K9/62
[1984/37]
CPC:
G08B13/194 (EP,US); G06T7/00 (EP,US); G06V10/75 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   NL,   SE [1984/37]
TitleGerman:Verfahren zur Musterbearbeitung[1990/23]
English:Pattern processing method[1990/23]
French:Procédé pour le traitement de modèles[1990/23]
Former [1984/37]System für Musterbearbeitung
Former [1984/37]Pattern processing system
Former [1984/37]Système pour le traitement de modèles
Examination procedure12.07.1986Examination requested  [1986/37]
21.12.1987Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.04.1988Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.06.1988Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
03.12.1988Reply to a communication from the examining division
28.04.1989Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
08.11.1989Communication of intention to grant the patent
26.01.1990Fee for grant paid
26.01.1990Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)07.03.1991No opposition filed within time limit [1991/20]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.12.1985Renewal fee patent year 03
03.01.1987Renewal fee patent year 04
11.01.1988Renewal fee patent year 05
02.01.1989Renewal fee patent year 06
16.01.1990Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipNL06.06.1990
SE06.06.1990
[1991/18]
Former [1991/12]SE06.06.1990
Documents cited:Search[A]US3599149  (PARDOE CARROLL T);
 [A]US4110737  (FAHEY WILLIAM DAVID);
 [A]US4286330  (ISAACSON JOEL D)
 [A]  - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS, vol. SMC-10, no. 1, January 1980, pages 25-32; IEEE; M.J. DOBREE WILSON: "Artificial perception in adaptive arrays"
ExaminationEP0118978
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