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EP About this file: EP0488297

EP0488297 - Symbol string search apparatus and system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  01.12.2000
Database last updated on 20.12.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip01.12.2000No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 17.01.2001 [2001/03]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Hitachi, Ltd.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo / JP
For all designated states
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
1-88, Ushitora-1-chome, Ibaraki-shi
Osaka-fu / JP
[N/P]
Former [2000/05]For all designated states
HITACHI, LTD.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo / JP
For all designated states
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
1-88, Ushitora-1-chome, Ibaraki-shi
Osaka-fu / JP
Former [1992/23]For all designated states
HITACHI, LTD.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 / JP
For all designated states
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
1-88, Ushitora-1-chome, Ibaraki-shi
Osaka-fu / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Akizawa, Mitsuru
Hitachi Koyasudai Apato C407
32, Koyasumachi-2-chome, Hachioji-shi / JP
02 / Noguchi, Kouki
Hitachi Tennoue Shataku B-11
217, Higashikoigakubo-1-chome, Kokubunji / JP
03 / Hayashi, Takehisa
10-36, Aihara-5-chome
Sagamihara-shi / JP
04 / Kato, Kanji
5297-5-4, Yamaguchi
Tokorozawa-shi / JP
05 / Matsushima, Hitoshi
13-18, Sunagawacho-1-chome
Tachikawa-shi / JP
[1992/23]
Representative(s)Strehl Schübel-Hopf & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1992/23]Strehl Schübel-Hopf Groening & Partner
Maximilianstrasse 54
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date91120412.128.11.1991
[1992/23]
Priority number, dateJP1990032889330.11.1990         Original published format: JP 32889390
[1992/23]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0488297
Date:03.06.1992
Language:EN
[1992/23]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0488297
Date:18.08.1993
Language:EN
[1993/33]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0488297
Date:02.02.2000
Language:EN
[2000/05]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP02.07.1993
ClassificationIPC:G06F7/02, G06F17/30
[1999/11]
CPC:
G06F16/90335 (EP); G06F16/90339 (EP); G06F7/02 (EP);
G06F2207/025 (EP)
Former IPC [1993/34]G06F7/02, G06F15/409, G06F15/415
Former IPC [1992/23]G06F7/02
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB [1992/23]
TitleGerman:Zeichenfolgensuchgerät und -system[1992/23]
English:Symbol string search apparatus and system[1992/23]
French:Appareil et système pour la recherche de séquences de symboles[1992/23]
Examination procedure17.01.1994Examination requested  [1994/11]
20.11.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
26.05.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
03.11.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
13.05.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.07.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
24.11.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
01.03.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
12.07.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
23.07.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
22.10.1999Fee for grant paid
22.10.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)03.11.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2001/03]
Fees paidRenewal fee
29.11.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
28.11.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
27.11.1995Renewal fee patent year 05
26.11.1996Renewal fee patent year 06
27.11.1997Renewal fee patent year 07
26.11.1998Renewal fee patent year 08
25.11.1999Renewal fee patent year 09
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 [A]  - PROCEEDINGS OF CONPAR. CONFERENCE PAPERS : PLENARY SESSIONS AND STREAM A. MANCHESTER, 12 - 16 SEPT. 1988. 1988, BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, LONDON GB pages 155 - 165 YAN H. NG ET AL. 'mapping with no strings attached'
 [A]  - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPRING JOINT COMPUTER CONFERENCE; ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. 18-20 MAY 1971. 1971, AFIPS PRESS, MONTVALE N.J. pages 49 - 59 K. THURBER 'An associative processor for air traffic control'
 [X]  - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1989 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER DESIGN: VLSI IN COMPUTERS & PROCESSORS, 2-4 OCTOBER 1989, CAMBRIDGE, MA., USA. 1989, IEEE, NEW YORK, USA pages 182 - 187 B. FU ET AL. 'performance and microarchitecture of the i486 processor'
 [X]  - TOSHIBA REVIEW no. 138, 1982, pages 29 - 32 K. DOI ET AL. 'CMOS 8-bit 1-chip microcomputer TMP80C49'
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