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EP0961216 - IC card-based test apparatus and method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  20.04.2007
Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip18.04.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): GR
published on 21.05.2008  [2008/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NDS LIMITED
One Heathrow Boulevard 286 Bath Road
West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0BQ / GB
[N/P]
Former [2006/24]For all designated states
NDS LIMITED
1 Heathrow Boulevard, 286 Bath Road West Drayton
Middlesex UB7 ODQ / GB
Former [1999/48]For all designated states
NDS LIMITED
1 Heathrow Boulevard, 286 Bath Road
West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 ODQ / GB
Inventor(s)01 / Adler, Michael
11 Hate'ena Street
Hashmonaim 73127 / IL
 [2006/24]
Former [1999/48]01 / Adler, Michael
11 Hate'ena Street
Hashimonaim 73127 / IL
Representative(s)White, Duncan Rohan
Marks & Clerk LLP
15 Fetter Lane
London EC4A 1BW / GB
[N/P]
Former [2005/38]White, Duncan Rohan
Marks & Clerk 90 Long Acre
London WC2E 9RA / GB
Former [2000/05]Freed, Arthur Woolf
Reginald W. Barker & Co., Chancery House, 53-64, Chancery Lane
London, WC2A 1QU / GB
Former [1999/48]Anderson, Angela Mary
NDS Limited, Gamma House, Enterprise Road
Chilworth, Hampshire SO16 7NS / GB
Application number, filing date99200839.117.03.1999
[1999/48]
Priority number, dateIL1998012465526.05.1998         Original published format: IL 12465598
[1999/48]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0961216
Date:01.12.1999
Language:EN
[1999/48]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0961216
Date:24.10.2001
[2001/43]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0961216
Date:14.06.2006
Language:EN
[2006/24]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP12.09.2001
ClassificationIPC:G06K7/00, G06K19/07, G06F11/273, G01R31/00, G06K19/077
[2001/43]
CPC:
G06F11/261 (EP); G06K7/0008 (EP)
Former IPC [1999/48]G06K7/00, G06K19/07, G06F11/273, G01R31/00
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   GR,   IT,   LI,   NL [2002/29]
Former [1999/48]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Chipkartenbasierendes Prüfverfahren und Vorrichtung[1999/48]
English:IC card-based test apparatus and method[1999/48]
French:Méthode et appareil de test fondé sur une carte à circuit intégré[1999/48]
Examination procedure11.12.2001Examination requested  [2002/06]
19.01.2005Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
27.05.2005Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.06.2005Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
29.07.2005Reply to a communication from the examining division
24.10.2005Communication of intention to grant the patent
30.01.2006Fee for grant paid
30.01.2006Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)15.03.2007No opposition filed within time limit [2007/21]
Fees paidRenewal fee
16.03.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
22.03.2002Renewal fee patent year 04
24.03.2003Renewal fee patent year 05
22.03.2004Renewal fee patent year 06
22.03.2005Renewal fee patent year 07
29.03.2006Renewal fee patent year 08
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipGR15.09.2006
ES25.09.2006
[2008/21]
Former [2007/21]ES25.09.2006
Documents cited:Search[XA]DE19542262  (FISCHER COMPUTERSYSTEME GMBH & [DE]) [X] 1,3,4,9 * the whole document * [A] 2;
 [A]FR2737794  (CANTU AUGUSTO GIUSEPPE LUCIO [FR]) [A] 1-3,9* page 1, line 15 - line 39; figure 2 *
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