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EP0944255
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0944255 - Digital television tuner [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.12.2004 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.09.2005 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 09.11.2005 [2005/45] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD. 1-7 Yukigaya Otsuka-cho Ota-ku Tokyo 145 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/38] | For all designated states ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD. 1-7 Yukigaya Otsuka-cho Ota-ku Tokyo 145 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kunishima, Tsutomu Room No.B-2 Seinosou, 159-110 Aza-okariya, Arahama Watari-cho, Watari-gun, Miyagi-ken / JP | [1999/38] | Representative(s) | Kensett, John Hinton Saunders & Dolleymore LLP 9 Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 0JU / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/38] | Kensett, John Hinton Saunders & Dolleymore, 9 Rickmansworth Road Watford, Hertfordshire WD1 7HE / GB | Application number, filing date | 99301618.7 | 03.03.1999 | [1999/38] | Priority number, date | JP19980065171 | 16.03.1998 Original published format: JP 6517198 | [1999/38] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0944255 | Date: | 22.09.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/38] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0944255 | Date: | 06.02.2002 | [2002/06] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0944255 | Date: | 28.01.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/05] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.12.2001 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/52 | [1999/38] | CPC: |
H04N5/52 (EP);
H04N21/426 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2002/43] |
| Former [1999/38] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Digitaler Fernsehtuner | [1999/38] | English: | Digital television tuner | [1999/38] | French: | Tuner numérique de télévision | [1999/38] | Examination procedure | 09.02.2002 | Examination requested [2002/16] | 31.01.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.06.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.08.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 26.09.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 26.09.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 29.10.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/03] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 25.03.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 27.03.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | GB | 28.04.2004 | [2005/45] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0664645 (TOSHIBA KK [JP], et al) [A] 1-3 * column 1, line 1 - column 11, line 19; figures 3,8 *; | [A]DE19639237 (ALPS ELECTRIC CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1-3 * column 1, line 1 - column 4, line 19 *; | [A]EP0574273 (TOSHIBA KK [JP], et al) [A] 1-3 * column 11, line 1 - column 11, line 56 * |