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EP About this file: EP0622805

EP0622805 - Contents addressable memory [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  26.05.2000
Database last updated on 04.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip26.05.2000No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 12.07.2000 [2000/28]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Mitel Semiconductor Limited
Cheney Manor Swindon
Wiltshire SN2 2QW / GB
[N/P]
Former [1998/39]For all designated states
Mitel Semiconductor Limited
Cheney Manor
Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2QW / GB
Former [1994/44]For all designated states
PLESSEY SEMICONDUCTORS LIMITED
Cheney Manor
Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 2QW / GB
Inventor(s)01 / Albon, Richard
The Retreat, Mary Tavy
Tavistock, Devon / GB
[1994/44]
Representative(s)Harding, Richard Patrick
Marks & Clerk LLP
4220 Nash Court
Oxford Business Park South
Oxford
OX4 2RU / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/13]Harding, Richard Patrick
Marks & Clerk, Nash Court, Oxford Business Park South
Oxford OX4 2RU / GB
Former [1994/44]Hoste, Colin Francis
The General Electric Company p.l.c. GEC Patent Department Waterhouse Lane
Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QX / GB
Application number, filing date94302962.925.04.1994
[1994/44]
Priority number, dateGB1993000877928.04.1993         Original published format: GB 9308779
[1994/44]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0622805
Date:02.11.1994
Language:EN
[1994/44]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0622805
Date:21.07.1999
Language:EN
[1999/29]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP07.07.1994
ClassificationIPC:G11C15/00
[1994/44]
CPC:
G11C15/04 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   SE [1994/44]
TitleGerman:Inhalt-adressierbarer Speicher[1994/44]
English:Contents addressable memory[1994/44]
French:Mémoire associative[1994/44]
Examination procedure28.04.1995Examination requested  [1995/26]
14.11.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
14.03.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.07.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
27.10.1998Communication of intention to grant the patent
17.11.1998Fee for grant paid
17.11.1998Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)26.04.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/28]
Fees paidRenewal fee
18.04.1996Renewal fee patent year 03
16.04.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
15.04.1998Renewal fee patent year 05
14.04.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[A]US4831586  (NAKAGAWA NORIO [JP], et al) [A] 1 * column A * * column 4, line 48 - column 6, line 58; figures 1,3 *;
 [A]  - WADE ET AL., "A TERNARY CONTENT ADDRESSABLE SEARCH ENGINE", IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS., NEW YORK US, (198908), vol. 24, no. 4, doi:doi:10.1109/4.34085, pages 1003 - 1013, XP000066231 [A] 1 * page 1008, line 43 - page 1011, line 10; figures 5-9 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/4.34085
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