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EP About this file: EP0338659

EP0338659 - Frequency counter [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  26.11.1994
Database last updated on 29.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip10.07.2004Change - 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 date89301562.817.02.1989
[1989/43]
Priority number, dateGB1988000939821.04.1988         Original published format: GB 8809398
[1989/43]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: 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:EP04.09.1989
ClassificationIPC:G01R23/02
[1989/43]
CPC:
G01R23/02 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   NL [1989/43]
TitleGerman:Frequenzzähler[1989/43]
English:Frequency counter[1989/43]
French:Compteur de fréquence[1989/43]
Examination procedure07.03.1990Examination requested  [1990/18]
29.05.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
05.10.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
21.01.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
01.02.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.04.1993Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
02.08.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.09.1993Fee for grant paid
02.09.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)27.10.1994No opposition filed within time limit [1995/03]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.01.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
03.02.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
15.02.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR26.01.1994
NL26.01.1994
[2004/35]
Former [1995/10]NL26.01.1994
FR17.06.1994
Former [1995/04]FR17.06.1994
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"
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