| EP0203355 - Connector systems [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.06.1993 Database last updated on 18.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.11.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.12.2007 [2007/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/49] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Carpenter, Robert George 1 Gurth Lane Saugerties New York 12477 / US | 02 /
Hladik, Gerald John 40 Robin Lane Kingston New York 12401 / US | 03 /
Mosher, Lawrence Gedney 23 Birchwood Drive Rhinebeck New York 12572 / US | 04 /
Zahorsky, James Theodore 5190-3 Kings Highway Saugerties New York 12477 / US | [1986/49] | Representative(s) | Atchley, Martin John Waldegrave IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1990/43] | Atchley, Martin John Waldegrave IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | ||
| Former [1986/49] | Grant, Iain Murray IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | Application number, filing date | 86105481.5 | 21.04.1986 | [1986/49] | Priority number, date | US19850740374 | 31.05.1985 Original published format: US 740374 | [1986/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0203355 | Date: | 03.12.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/49] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0203355 | Date: | 17.08.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/33] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0203355 | Date: | 12.08.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/33] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.06.1988 | Classification | IPC: | H01R9/05 | [1992/33] | CPC: |
H01R24/46 (EP,US);
H01R13/65915 (EP,US);
H01R2103/00 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1988/34] | H01R17/12, H01R9/05 | ||
| Former IPC [1986/49] | H01R9/05 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1986/49] | Title | German: | Verbindungsklemmensysteme | [1986/49] | English: | Connector systems | [1986/49] | French: | Systèmes de connecteurs | [1986/49] | Examination procedure | 27.03.1987 | Examination requested [1987/22] | 08.08.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 07.12.1990 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.02.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.06.1991 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.11.1991 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 03.02.1992 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 19.02.1992 | Fee for grant paid | 19.02.1992 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 13.05.1993 | No opposition filed within time limit [1993/31] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.04.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.04.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 10.04.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.04.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 29.04.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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