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EP0978980
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| EP0978980 - Method and apparatus for identifying a line blockage [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.07.2003 Database last updated on 13.11.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/06] | For all designated states LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Davis, Ted Jeffery 2340 Oak Drive O'Fallon, Missouri 63366 / US | 02 /
Jackson, Michael Grady 4749 Cactus Wren Court St. Louis, Missouri 63128 / US | [2000/06] | Representative(s) | Buckley, Christopher Simon Thirsk, et al Lucent Technologies (UK) Ltd, 5 Mornington Road Woodford Green Essex IG8 0TU / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/06] | Buckley, Christopher Simon Thirsk, et al Lucent Technologies (UK) Ltd, 5 Mornington Road Woodford Green, Essex IG8 0TU / GB | Application number, filing date | 99305913.8 | 26.07.1999 | [2000/06] | Priority number, date | US19980128182 | 03.08.1998 Original published format: US 128182 | [2000/06] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0978980 | Date: | 09.02.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/06] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0978980 | Date: | 20.12.2000 | [2000/51] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0978980 | Date: | 04.09.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/36] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.11.2000 | Classification | IPC: | H04M3/22, H04M3/36 | [2000/51] | CPC: |
H04M3/36 (EP,US);
H04Q1/30 (KR)
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| Former IPC [2000/06] | H04M3/22 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2001/36] |
| Former [2000/06] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Verfahren und Gerät zur Identifizierung einer Leitungsblockierung | [2000/06] | English: | Method and apparatus for identifying a line blockage | [2000/06] | French: | Procédé et dispositif d' identification d'un blocage de ligne | [2000/06] | Examination procedure | 26.07.1999 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 06.08.1999 | Examination requested [2000/06] | 01.02.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 01.02.2001 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 23.07.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.12.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 26.02.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 29.04.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 29.04.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.06.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/35] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.06.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.06.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | FR | 04.09.2002 | [2006/14] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4788718 (MCNABB SANDRA D [US], et al) [A] 1,2 * column 10, line 12 - line 68 *; | [A]US5483590 (CHIU LIN [US], et al) [A] 1,2 * the whole document *; | [A]WO9809235 (NOKIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS OY [FI], et al) [A] 1,2 * abstract *; | [PA]WO9844704 (ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M [SE]) [PA] 1,2 * page 10, line 15 - page 12, line 21 ** abstract * |