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EP0687114
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| EP0687114 - Apparatus for providing audible instructions or status information for use in a digital television system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.11.2000 Database last updated on 10.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 26.10.2001 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 12.12.2001 [2001/50] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, INC. 10330 North Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46206 / US | [1995/50] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hailey, James Edwin, Sr. 7239 Creekside Lane Indianapolis, IN / US | 02 /
Virag, David Emery 9308A Viking Hills Court Indianapolis, IN / US | [1995/50] | Representative(s) | Wördemann, Hermes Deutsche Thomson OHG European Patent Operations Karl-Wiechert-Allee 74 30625 Hannover / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/50] | Wördemann, Hermes, Dipl.-Ing. Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Patent Dept., Göttinger Chaussee 76 D-30453 Hannover / DE | Application number, filing date | 95108288.2 | 31.05.1995 | [1995/50] | Priority number, date | US19940257320 | 09.06.1994 Original published format: US 257320 | [1995/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0687114 | Date: | 13.12.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/50] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0687114 | Date: | 26.02.1997 | [1997/09] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0687114 | Date: | 12.01.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/02] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.01.1997 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/44, H04N7/20, H01Q1/12 | [1997/04] | CPC: |
H04N5/602 (EP,US);
H04N5/455 (KR);
H04N21/426 (EP,US);
H04N21/4331 (EP,US);
H04N21/4341 (EP,US);
H04N21/4882 (EP,US);
H04N21/8106 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1995/50] | H04N7/52 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IE, IT [1995/50] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zur Bereitstellung von hörbaren Befehlen oder Zustandsinformationen in einem digitalen Fernsehsystem | [1995/50] | English: | Apparatus for providing audible instructions or status information for use in a digital television system | [1995/50] | French: | Appareil pour fournir des instructions audibles ou des informations d'état dans un système de télévision numérique | [1995/50] | Examination procedure | 28.06.1997 | Examination requested [1997/35] | 23.03.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 09.07.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.10.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 12.10.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 13.10.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 18.04.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.05.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | IE | 31.05.2000 | [2001/50] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPS60250733 ; | [A]DE3723114 (DEUTSCHE BUNDESPOST [DE]) [A] 1,2 * abstract * * column 2, line 20 - column 3, line 24; figure 1 *; | [A]US4893288 (MAIER GERHARD [DE], et al) [A] 1,4-6 * abstract * * column 1, line 34 - line 65; figures 1,2 *; | [A]WO9216071 (GEN ELECTRIC [US]) [A] 1,2 * abstract * * page 5, line 1 - line 29 * * page 7, line 32 - page 12, line 32; figure 1 *; | [E]EP0687029 (THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS [US]) [E] 1,2,4,5* the whole document * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19860502), vol. 010, no. 117, Database accession no. (E - 400), & JP60250733 A 19851211 (SONY KK) [A] 1,4 * abstract * | by applicant | US19940232789 |