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EP0338794 - Apparatus for marking a recorded signal [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.09.1994 Database last updated on 13.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	23.07.2004	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): ES	published on 08.09.2004 [2004/37]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states THORN EMI PLC 4 Tenterden Street London W1A 2AY / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1989/43]	For all designated states THORN EMI plc 4 Tenterden Street London W1A 2AY / GB
Inventor(s)	01 / Maufe, Barry Gordon 40 Ainsdale Road Ealing London, W5 1JX / GB
	[1989/43]
Representative(s)	Hurst, Richard Arthur Alexander, et al THORN EMI Patents Limited, Central Research Laboratories, Dawley Road Hayes Middlesex UB3 1HH / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1994/40]	Hurst, Richard Arthur Alexander, et al THORN EMI Patents Limited, Central Research Laboratories, Dawley Road Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1HH / GB
Former [1992/27]	Hurst, Richard Arthur Alexander THORN EMI Patents Limited Central Research Laboratories Dawley Road Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1HH / GB
Former [1989/43]	Fleming, Ian Alexander THORN EMI Patents Limited The Quadrangle Westmount Centre Uxbridge Road Hayes Middlesex, UB4 0HB / GB
Application number, filing date	89303863.8	19.04.1989
	[1989/43]
Priority number, date	GB19880009347	20.04.1988 Original published format: GB 8809347
	[1989/43]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0338794
	Date:	25.10.1989
	Language:	EN
	[1989/43]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0338794
	Date:	29.01.1992
	Language:	EN
	[1992/05]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0338794
	Date:	10.11.1993
	Language:	EN
	[1993/45]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	09.12.1991
Classification	IPC:	G11B20/00, G11B23/28	[1989/43]
	CPC:	G11B20/00884 (EP,US); G11B20/00086 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1989/43]
Title	German:	Gerät zur Markierung von aufgezeichneten Signalen	[1989/43]
	English:	Apparatus for marking a recorded signal	[1989/43]
	French:	Appareil de marquage d'un signal enregistré	[1989/43]
Examination procedure	18.06.1992	Examination requested [1992/34]
	30.10.1992	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	25.02.1993	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	26.04.1993	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	11.05.1993	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	25.05.1993	Fee for grant paid
	25.05.1993	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	11.08.1994	No opposition filed within time limit [1994/44]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	03.04.1991	Renewal fee patent year 03
	14.04.1992	Renewal fee patent year 04
	15.03.1993	Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	GR	10.11.1993
	AT	19.04.1994
	GB	19.04.1994
	ES	20.04.1994
	SE	20.04.1994
	BE	30.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
	LU	30.04.1994
	[2004/37]
Former [2000/04]	GR	10.11.1993
	AT	19.04.1994
	GB	19.04.1994
	SE	20.04.1994
	BE	30.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
	LU	30.04.1994
Former [1995/40]	AT	19.04.1994
	GB	19.04.1994
	SE	20.04.1994
	BE	30.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
Former [1995/19]	GB	19.04.1994
	SE	20.04.1994
	BE	30.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
Former [1995/12]	SE	20.04.1994
	BE	30.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
Former [1995/11]	SE	20.04.1994
	CH	30.04.1994
	LI	30.04.1994
Former [1995/05]	SE	20.04.1994
Documents cited:	Search	[A]JP56124104 ;
		[A]US4040099 (COOK EMORY G);
		[A]GB2104701 (KING JAMES BERTRAM);
		[AP]GB2196167 (EMI PLC THORN)
		[A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 5, no. 202 (P-95)(874) 22 December 1981, & JP-A-56 124104 (TEAC K.K.) 29 September 1981,, & JP56124104 A 19810929

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