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EP0338659
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0338659
| EP0338659 - Frequency counter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.11.1994 Database last updated on 29.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.07.2004 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 25.08.2004 [2004/35] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Marconi Instruments Limited Longacres Hatfield Road St. Albans Hertfordshire, AL4 0JN / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1989/43] | For all designated states MARCONI INSTRUMENTS LIMITED Longacres Hatfield Road St. Albans Hertfordshire, AL4 0JN / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Thomas, Neil Edwin 29 Salisbury Avenue St Albans Hertfordshire / GB | [1989/43] | Representative(s) | Rees, Alexander Ellison, et al The General Electric Company, p.l.c. GEC Patent Department Waterhouse Lane Chelmsford Essex CM1 2QX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/50] | Rees, Alexander Ellison, et al The General Electric Company, p.l.c. GEC Patent Department Waterhouse Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QX / GB | ||
| Former [1989/43] | Kensett, John Hinton GEC-Marconi Research Centre GEC-Patent Department(Chelmsford Office) West Hanningfield Road Great Baddow Chelmsford Essex CM2 8HN / GB | Application number, filing date | 89301562.8 | 17.02.1989 | [1989/43] | Priority number, date | GB19880009398 | 21.04.1988 Original published format: GB 8809398 | [1989/43] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0338659 | Date: | 25.10.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/43] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0338659 | Date: | 26.01.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/04] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.09.1989 | Classification | IPC: | G01R23/02 | [1989/43] | CPC: |
G01R23/02 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, NL [1989/43] | Title | German: | Frequenzzähler | [1989/43] | English: | Frequency counter | [1989/43] | French: | Compteur de fréquence | [1989/43] | Examination procedure | 07.03.1990 | Examination requested [1990/18] | 29.05.1992 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 05.10.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 21.01.1993 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 01.02.1993 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.04.1993 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 02.08.1993 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.09.1993 | Fee for grant paid | 02.09.1993 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 27.10.1994 | No opposition filed within time limit [1995/03] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.01.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 03.02.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 15.02.1993 | 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 | FR | 26.01.1994 | NL | 26.01.1994 | [2004/35] |
| Former [1995/10] | NL | 26.01.1994 | |
| FR | 17.06.1994 | ||
| Former [1995/04] | FR | 17.06.1994 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]SU976396 ; | [A]US3235800 (TURRELL DOUGLAS W); | [A]DE2552079 (PHILIPS PATENTVERWALTUNG) | [A] - TOUTE L'ELECTRONIQUE, no. 456, August-September 1980, pages 71-74, Paris, FR; L. CHATAIGNIER: "Philips: les fréquencemètres à haute résolution PM 6667/68" | [A] - E.D.N. ELECTRICAL DESIGN NEWS, vol. 28, no. 17, August 1983, page 211, Boston, MA, US; M.E. SATINOSKY: "PLL measures low frequencies" | [A] - SOVIET INVENTIONS ILLUSTRATED, week 8338, 2nd November 1983, abstract no. 770415/38, Derwent Publications Ltd, London, GB; & SU-A-976-396 (V.F. TIKHOMIROV) 23-11-1982, & SU976396 A 00000000 | [A] - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, vol. IM-19, no. 1, February 1970, pages 34-45; W.H. FARTHING: "Wide-band high-resolution determination of absolute frequency" | [A] - NEW ELECTRONICS, vol. 18, no. 8, April 1985, pages 34,36,38,39,41, London, GB; G. CARTER et al.: "Counter technology emerges for the 1990s" |