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EP0628832 - Integrated circuit with register stages [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.10.2002 Database last updated on 11.04.2026
Most recent event Tooltip	22.08.2008	Change - applicant	published on 24.09.2008 [2008/39]
Applicant(s)	For:DE Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH 20099 Hamburg / DE
	For:FR GB IT Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
	[2008/39]
Former [2002/40]	For:DE Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH 20099 Hamburg / DE
	For:FR GB IT Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
Former [2000/02]	For:DE Philips Corporate Intellectual Property GmbH Habsburgerallee 11 52064 Aachen / DE
	For:FR GB IT Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
Former [1994/50]	For:DE Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH Röntgenstrasse 24 D-22335 Hamburg / DE
	For:FR GB IT PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V. Groenewoudseweg 1 NL-5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
Inventor(s)	01 / Scheuermann, Kurt c/o Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH, Wendenstr. 35c D-20097 Hamburg / DE
	02 / Ebert, Harald c/o Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH, Wendenstr. 35c D-20097 Hamburg / DE
	[1994/50]
Representative(s)	Volmer, Georg, et al Philips Intellectual Property & Standards GmbH Postfach 50 04 42 52088 Aachen / DE
	[N/P]
Former [1999/03]	Volmer, Georg, Dipl.-Ing., et al Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH, Röntgenstrasse 24 22335 Hamburg / DE
Former [1994/50]	Poddig, Dieter, Dipl.-Ing., et al Philips Patentverwaltung GmbH, Röntgenstrasse 24 D-22335 Hamburg / DE
Application number, filing date	94201561.1	01.06.1994
	[1994/50]
Priority number, date	DE19934318422	03.06.1993 Original published format: DE 4318422
	[1994/50]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0628832
	Date:	14.12.1994
	Language:	DE
	[1994/50]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0628832
	Date:	05.11.1997
	[1997/45]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0628832
	Date:	05.12.2001
	Language:	DE
	[2001/49]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	23.09.1997
Classification	IPC:	G01R31/318, G06F11/26, G01R31/28	[1997/45]
	CPC:	G01R31/318541 (EP,US); G01R31/31858 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [1994/50]	G01R31/318, G06F11/26
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB, IT [1994/50]
Title	German:	Integrierte Schaltung mit Registerstufen	[1994/50]
	English:	Integrated circuit with register stages	[1994/50]
	French:	Circuit intégré comportant des étages de registres	[1994/50]
Examination procedure	06.05.1998	Examination requested [1998/27]
	22.11.1999	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	26.05.2000	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	28.02.2001	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	12.06.2001	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	24.09.2001	Fee for grant paid
	24.09.2001	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	06.09.2002	No opposition filed within time limit [2002/48]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	01.07.1996	Renewal fee patent year 03
	30.06.1997	Renewal fee patent year 04
	30.06.1998	Renewal fee patent year 05
	30.06.1999	Renewal fee patent year 06
	30.06.2000	Renewal fee patent year 07
	02.07.2001	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	IT	05.12.2001
	[2008/05]
Documents cited:	Search	[A] EP0358376 (TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC et al.)
		[A] GB2193330 (HITACHI LTD et al.)
		[A] EP0136461 (IBM et al.) [A] 1 * figure 2 *

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