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EP0816904
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| EP0816904 - Liquid crystal devices [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.08.2006 Database last updated on 19.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 18.08.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 20.09.2006 [2006/38] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 22-22 Nagaike-cho Abeno-ku Osaka-shi Osaka-fu 545-0013 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [2005/41] | For all designated states SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA 22-22 Nagaike-cho, Abeno-ku Osaka-shi Osaka-fu 545-0013 / JP | ||
| Former [1998/02] | For all designated states SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA 22-22 Nagaike-cho Abeno-ku Osaka 545 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Tillin, Martin David 11 Summer Fields Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2PG / GB | 02 /
Towler, Michael John 20 The Garth Botley, Oxford, OX2 9AL / GB | [1998/02] | Representative(s) | Pearce, Anthony Richmond Marks & Clerk LLP 4220 Nash Court Oxford Business Park South Oxford OX4 2RU / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/03] | Pearce, Anthony Richmond Marks & Clerk, 4220 Nash Court, Oxford Business Park South Oxford, OX4 2RU / GB | ||
| Former [1998/02] | Pearce, Anthony Richmond MARKS & CLERK, Alpha Tower, Suffolk Street Queensway Birmingham B1 1TT / GB | Application number, filing date | 97304483.7 | 25.06.1997 | [1998/02] | Priority number, date | GB19960013364 | 26.06.1996 Original published format: GB 9613364 | [1998/02] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0816904 | Date: | 07.01.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/02] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0816904 | Date: | 30.12.1998 | [1998/53] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0816904 | Date: | 12.10.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/41] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.11.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G02F1/139, G02F1/1335 | [1998/02] | CPC: |
G02F1/13473 (EP,US);
G02F1/1395 (EP,US);
G02F1/1396 (EP,US);
G02F1/13363 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1999/36] |
| Former [1998/02] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Flüssigkristall-Anzeigevorrichtungen | [1998/02] | English: | Liquid crystal devices | [1998/02] | French: | Dispositifs d'affichage à cristal liquide | [1998/02] | Examination procedure | 24.06.1999 | Examination requested [1999/33] | 03.07.1999 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 22.10.1999 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, CH, DK, ES, FI, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | 30.08.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 15.01.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.09.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 12.12.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.10.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.01.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 08.11.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.02.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 25.02.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 13.07.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/38] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.06.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.06.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 12.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 12.06.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 14.06.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 14.06.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 02.08.1999 | AT M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | BE M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | CH M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | DK M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | ES M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | FI M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | GR M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | IE M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | IT M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | LU M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | MC M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | NL M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | PT M01 Not yet paid | 02.08.1999 | SE M01 Not yet paid |
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