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EP About this file: EP0703706

EP0703706 - Digital television set [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  02.06.2000
Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip04.01.2003Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 19.02.2003  [2003/08]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa 212-8572 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1999/31]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi / JP
Former [1996/13]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yasuki, Seijiro, c/o Int. Prop. Div.
K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP
02 / Tashiro, Shigeru, c/o Int. Prop. Div.
K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP
03 / Chimoto, Hiroyuki, c/o Int. Prop. Div.
K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP
[1996/13]
Representative(s)Henkel & Partner mbB
Patentanwaltskanzlei, Rechtsanwaltskanzlei
Maximiliansplatz 21
80333 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1996/13]Henkel, Feiler, Hänzel & Partner
Möhlstrasse 37
D-81675 München / DE
Application number, filing date95114750.319.09.1995
[1996/13]
Priority number, dateJP1994022533620.09.1994         Original published format: JP 22533694
[1996/13]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0703706
Date:27.03.1996
Language:EN
[1996/13]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0703706
Date:15.01.1997
[1997/03]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0703706
Date:04.08.1999
Language:EN
[1999/31]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP26.11.1996
ClassificationIPC:H04N5/262
[1997/03]
CPC:
H04N5/45 (EP,US); H04N21/40 (KR); H04N21/426 (EP,US);
H04N21/4312 (EP,US); H04N21/44 (EP,US); H04N7/00 (KR);
H04N21/4316 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [1996/13]H04N5/44
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   NL [1996/13]
TitleGerman:Digitaler Fernsehempfänger[1996/13]
English:Digital television set[1996/13]
French:Récepteur de télévision numérique[1996/13]
Examination procedure16.10.1995Examination requested  [1996/13]
07.09.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
04.11.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
30.12.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
08.02.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
18.05.1999Fee for grant paid
18.05.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)05.05.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/29]
Fees paidRenewal fee
25.09.1997Renewal fee patent year 03
09.09.1998Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipNL04.08.1999
[2003/08]
Documents cited:Search[A]US4266242  (MCCOY REGINALD F H) [A] 1,2,11,12 * column 1, line 3 - line 12 * * column 2, line 1 - line 27 * * column 3, line 23 - line 37 * * column 4, line 51 - column 14, line 17; figure 1 *;
 [A]GB2244887  (RANK CINTEL LTD [GB]) [A] 1,2,9,11 * the whole document *;
 [A]DE4402447  (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1,11,12 * the whole document *;
 [PA]US5434624  (ISHIMURA TUNEAKI [JP]);
 [A]EP0587130  (TOSHIBA KK [JP])
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