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EP0845740
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0845740
| EP0845740 - A multiplier unit [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.07.2003 Database last updated on 14.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.07.2008 | Change - representative | published on 13.08.2008 [2008/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Texas Instruments Incorporated P.O. Box 655474 Mail Station 3999 Dallas, Texas 75265 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/23] | For all designated states Texas Instruments Incorporated P.O. Box 655474, Mail Station 3999 Dallas, Texas 75265 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Gatherer, Alan 2105 Bluebonnet Drive Richardson, TX 75082 / US | 02 /
Lemonds, Carl E. 3322 Castle Rock Garland, TX 75044 / US | [1998/23] | Representative(s) | Holt, Michael Texas Instruments Limited European Patent Department 3rd Floor 401 Grafton Gate Milton Keynes MK9 1AQ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/33] | Holt, Michael Texas Instruments Limited European Patents Department 800 Pavilion Drive Northampton NN4 7YL / GB | ||
| Former [1998/23] | Holt, Michael Texas Instruments Limited, Kempton Point, 68 Staines Road West Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7AX / GB | Application number, filing date | 97120773.3 | 26.11.1997 | [1998/23] | Priority number, date | US19960032502P | 27.11.1996 Original published format: US 32502 P | [1998/23] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0845740 | Date: | 03.06.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/23] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0845740 | Date: | 18.09.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/38] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.03.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G06F7/52 | [1998/23] | CPC: |
G06F7/527 (EP);
G06F7/5324 (EP);
G06F2207/388 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [1999/08] |
| Former [1998/23] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Multipliziereinheit | [1998/23] | English: | A multiplier unit | [1998/23] | French: | Unité de multiplication | [1998/23] | Examination procedure | 03.12.1998 | Examination requested [1999/05] | 06.02.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M07) | 22.08.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.10.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 05.03.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 21.03.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 01.07.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 01.07.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 19.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/37] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.11.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Former [2003/22] | NL | 18.09.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [A] XINGCHA FAN ET AL: "DATA FORMATS AND ARITHMETIC OPERATORS FOR SERIAL/PARALLEL TRADE- OFFS IN PIPELINED ARCHITECTURES", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, NEW ORLEANS, MAY 1 - 3, 1990, vol. 2 OF 4, 1 May 1990 (1990-05-01), INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, pages 1248 - 1251, XP000167038 [A] 1,9,13,17 * figure 6 * | [A] D. ESTEBAN: "TIME-SHARED SHIFT ACCUMULATOR", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN., vol. 15, no. 3, August 1972 (1972-08-01), NEW YORK US, pages 763 - 764, XP002056987 [A] 1,9,13,17 * the whole document * | [A] P. BUCKLE ET AL.: "Programmable shift registers for numerical multiplication", RADIO AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEER., vol. 44, no. 1, January 1974 (1974-01-01), LONDON GB, pages 33 - 38, XP002056988 [A] 1,9,13,17 * figures 2,6 * |