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EP0909035
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0909035 - Phase synchronisation device and phase quadrature signal generating apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 22.08.2008 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 06.03.2009 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FI | published on 08.04.2009 [2009/15] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LIMITED 800 Pavilion Drive Northampton Business Park Northampton NN4 7YL / GB | [2007/42] |
| Former [2004/14] | For all designated states Texas Instruments Limited 800 Pavilion Drive Northampton Business Park, Northampton NN4 7YL / GB | ||
| Former [1999/15] | For all designated states Phoenix VLSI Consultants Ltd. Towcester Mill Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 6AD / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Pickering, Andrew James 31 Shenstone Avenue Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 5BJ / GB | 02 /
Joy, Andrew Keith 15 Wymersley Close Great Houghton NN4 7PT / GB | 03 /
Simpson, Susan Mary 15 Clare Crescent Towcester NN12 6QQ / GB | [1999/15] | Representative(s) | Holt, Michael, et al Texas Instruments Limited European Patent Department 3rd Floor 401 Grafton Gate Milton Keynes MK9 1AQ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/33] | Holt, Michael, et al Texas Instruments Limited European Patents Department 800 Pavilion Drive Northampton NN4 7YL / GB | ||
| Former [2004/14] | Holt, Michael, et al Texas Instruments Ltd., 800 Pavilion Drive, Northampton Business Park Northampton, Northamptonshire NN4 7YL / GB | ||
| Former [1999/15] | Crawford, Andrew Birkby, et al A.A. THORNTON & CO. Northumberland House 303-306 High Holborn London WC1V 7LE / GB | Application number, filing date | 98308210.8 | 08.10.1998 | [1999/15] | Priority number, date | GB19970021384 | 08.10.1997 Original published format: GB 9721384 | [1999/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0909035 | Date: | 14.04.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/15] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0909035 | Date: | 06.09.2000 | [2000/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0909035 | Date: | 17.10.2007 | Language: | EN | [2007/42] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.07.2000 | Classification | IPC: | H03L7/08, H03L7/081, H03H11/22 | [2000/36] | CPC: |
H03B28/00 (EP,US);
H03L7/093 (EP,US);
H03L7/0998 (EP);
H04L7/033 (EP,US);
H04L7/0025 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1999/15] | H03L7/08 | Designated contracting states | DE, FI, FR, GB, IT, NL, SE [2001/21] |
| Former [1999/15] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Phasensynchronisierungseinrichtung und Vorrichtung zum Erzeugen von in Quadraturphasenbeziehung stehenden Signalen | [1999/15] | English: | Phase synchronisation device and phase quadrature signal generating apparatus | [1999/15] | French: | Dispositif de synchronisation de phase et générateur de signaux en quadrature de phase | [1999/15] | Examination procedure | 22.01.2001 | Examination requested [2001/12] | 07.03.2001 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 20.09.2001 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, CH, CY, DK, ES, GR, IE, LU, MC, PT | 17.10.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 12.08.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.05.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 07.11.2006 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 17.01.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 13.04.2007 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.08.2007 | Fee for grant paid | 23.08.2007 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 18.07.2008 | No opposition filed within time limit [2008/39] | Request for further processing for: | 17.01.2007 | Request for further processing filed | 17.01.2007 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 02.03.2007 | Decision despatched | 07.01.2007 | Request for further processing filed | 17.01.2007 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 02.03.2007 | Decision despatched | 17.01.2007 | Request for further processing filed | 17.01.2007 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 02.03.2007 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.12.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 31.10.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 02.11.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 31.10.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 31.10.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 31.10.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 26.06.2001 | AT M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | BE M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | CH M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | CY M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | DK M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | ES M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | GR M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | IE M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | LU M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | MC M01 Not yet paid | 26.06.2001 | PT M01 Not yet paid | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.10.2000 | 03 M06 Fee paid on 22.01.2001 | 31.10.2002 | 05 M06 Fee paid on 17.12.2002 |
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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 | FI | 17.10.2007 | NL | 17.10.2007 | SE | 17.01.2008 | [2009/15] |
| Former [2008/23] | NL | 17.10.2007 | |
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