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EP0377990
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| EP0377990 - Data processing systems [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.03.1998 Database last updated on 14.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.06.2002 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 07.08.2002 [2002/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1990/29] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nguyenphu, Myhong 11802 Prairie Hen Lane Austin Texas 78758 / US | 02 /
Thatcher, Larry Edward 11507 D-K Ranch Road Austin Texas 78759 / US | [1990/29] | Representative(s) | Bailey, Geoffrey Alan IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1991/04] | Bailey, Geoffrey Alan IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | ||
| Former [1990/29] | Grant, Iain Murray IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | Application number, filing date | 89313400.7 | 20.12.1989 | [1990/29] | Priority number, date | US19890297782 | 13.01.1989 Original published format: US 297782 | [1990/29] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0377990 | Date: | 18.07.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/29] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0377990 | Date: | 31.07.1991 | Language: | EN | [1991/31] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0377990 | Date: | 02.05.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/18] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.06.1991 | Classification | IPC: | G06F9/38, G06F7/48 | [1997/18] | CPC: |
G06F9/3816 (EP,US);
G06F9/34 (EP,US);
G06F9/3822 (EP,US);
G06F9/3824 (EP,US);
G06F9/3877 (EP,US);
G06F9/3885 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1991/29] | G06F7/48, G06F9/38 | ||
| Former IPC [1990/29] | G06F9/38, G06F7/48 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1990/29] | Title | German: | Datenverarbeitungssystem | [1990/29] | English: | Data processing systems | [1990/29] | French: | Système de traitement de données | [1990/29] | Examination procedure | 13.11.1990 | Examination requested [1991/02] | 28.10.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08) | 26.06.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.09.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 29.02.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.07.1996 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 28.10.1996 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 31.10.1996 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 18.11.1996 | Fee for grant paid | 18.11.1996 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 03.02.1998 | No opposition filed within time limit [1998/17] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.12.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.12.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 21.12.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 19.12.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 14.12.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 18.12.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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 | 02.05.1997 | DE | 05.08.1997 | GB | 20.12.1997 | [2002/32] |
| Former [1999/02] | DE | 05.08.1997 | |
| GB | 20.12.1997 | ||
| Former [1998/03] | DE | 05.08.1997 | Documents cited: | Search | [X] IEEE MICRO. vol. 8, no. 6, December 1988, NEW YORK US pages 30 - 47; FUCCIO et al.: &T's Second-Generation Floating-Point Digital Signal Processor" [X] | [X] Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE 1987, MIAMI BEACH, FLA, USA pages 89 - 94; VLADIMIRESCU et al.: "A Vector Hardware Accelerator with Circuit Simulation Emphasis" [X] | [X] IEEE international conf on computer design: VLSI & processors October 1988, Rye Town Hilton, Rye Brook, NY, USA pages 307 - 310; SMITH et al.: "The Astronautics ZS-1 Processor" [X] | Examination | IEEE MICRO, vol. 8, no. 6, December 1988, New York, US, pp. 30-47; FUCCIO et al.: "The DSP32C: AT&T's Second-Generation Floating-Point Digital Signal Processor" [X] |