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EP0953910 - Method and apparatus for controlling write access to storage means for a digital data processing circuit [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.09.2011
Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip16.12.2011Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 18.01.2012  [2012/03]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Thomson Licensing
1-5, rue Jeanne d'Arc
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux / FR
[N/P]
Former [2010/07]For all designated states
Thomson Licensing
1, rue Jeanne d'Arc
92443 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex / FR
Former [2008/17]For all designated states
THOMSON Licensing
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt / FR
Former [2008/16]For all designated states
Thomson Licensing, S.A.
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt / FR
Former [2008/10]For all designated states
THOMSON
46, Quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt / FR
Former [1999/44]For all designated states
DEUTSCHE THOMSON-BRANDT GMBH
Hermann-Schwer-Strasse 3
78048 Villingen-Schwenningen / DE
Inventor(s)01 / Adolph, Dirk
Wallbrink 2
30952 Ronnenberg / DE
02 / Schiller, Harald
Apfelgarten 11
30539 Hannover / DE
[1999/44]
Representative(s)Hartnack, Wolfgang
Deutsche Thomson OHG
Karl-Wiechert-Allee 1D
30625 Hannover / DE
[N/P]
Former [1999/44]Hartnack, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing.
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH Licensing & Intellectual Property, Karl-Wiechert-Alee 74
30625 Hannover / DE
Application number, filing date99107745.419.04.1999
[1999/44]
Priority number, dateEP1998025014730.04.1998         Original published format: EP 98250147
[1999/44]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0953910
Date:03.11.1999
Language:EN
[1999/44]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0953910
Date:18.01.2006
[2006/03]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0953910
Date:03.11.2010
Language:EN
[2010/44]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP05.12.2005
ClassificationIPC:G06F11/00
[1999/44]
CPC:
G06F21/567 (EP); G06F11/004 (EP); G06F12/1433 (EP);
G06F9/30098 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [2006/38]
Former [1999/44]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Überwachung der Schreibzugriffe zu einer Speichervorrichtung für eine digitale Datenverarbeitungsschaltung[1999/44]
English:Method and apparatus for controlling write access to storage means for a digital data processing circuit[1999/44]
French:Méthode et dispositif pour controller l'accès d'écriture à des moyens de stockage pour un circuit de traitement de données numériques[1999/44]
Examination procedure27.06.2006Examination requested  [2006/32]
10.07.2007Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
09.11.2007Reply to a communication from the examining division
04.06.2010Communication of intention to grant the patent
15.09.2010Fee for grant paid
15.09.2010Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)04.08.2011No opposition filed within time limit [2011/41]
Fees paidRenewal fee
21.04.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
24.04.2002Renewal fee patent year 04
19.04.2003Renewal fee patent year 05
27.04.2004Renewal fee patent year 06
20.04.2005Renewal fee patent year 07
22.04.2006Renewal fee patent year 08
26.04.2007Renewal fee patent year 09
20.03.2008Renewal fee patent year 10
25.04.2009Renewal fee patent year 11
24.04.2010Renewal fee patent year 12
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT03.11.2010
[2012/03]
Documents cited:Search[X]WO9638775  (AST RESEARCH, INC.) [X] 1,4,5,8 * abstract * * figure 1 *;
 [X]US5421006  (JABLON ET AL.) [X] 1,4,5,8 * abstract *;
 [A]GB2222899  (ANTHONY MORRIS ROSE) [A] 2,6 * page 8, line 20 - line 28 *
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