EP0360499 - Analog-to-digital converter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 25.10.1996 Database last updated on 22.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 29.08.1997 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 15.10.1997 [1997/42] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1990/13] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Herbst, Gary Alan 29 Southlake Drive San Jose, CA 95138 / US | 02 /
Jones, David Michael 8670 Del Rey Court Gilroy, CA 95020 / US | [1990/13] | Representative(s) | Moss, Robert Douglas IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1990/13] | Moss, Robert Douglas IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | Application number, filing date | 89309358.3 | 14.09.1989 | [1990/13] | Priority number, date | US19880247469 | 21.09.1988 Original published format: US 247469 | [1990/13] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0360499 | Date: | 28.03.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/13] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0360499 | Date: | 03.06.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/23] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0360499 | Date: | 20.12.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/51] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.04.1992 | Classification | IPC: | H03M1/14, H03M1/36 | [1990/13] | CPC: |
H03M1/368 (EP,US);
H03M1/1019 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1990/13] | Title | German: | Analog-Digitalwandler | [1990/13] | English: | Analog-to-digital converter | [1990/13] | French: | Convertisseur analogique-numérique | [1990/13] | Examination procedure | 23.07.1990 | Examination requested [1990/38] | 25.08.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.12.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.03.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 16.06.1995 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 27.06.1995 | Fee for grant paid | 27.06.1995 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.09.1996 | No opposition filed within time limit [1996/50] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.12.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 17.09.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 18.09.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 27.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 07.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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 | 14.09.1996 | [1997/42] | Documents cited: | Search | [X] - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS. vol. 32, no. 4, November 1986, NEW YORK US pages 734 - 741; ISO ET AL.: '16-bit a/d converter and d/a converter for digital audio' | [A] - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT. vol. 34, no. 4, December 1985, NEW YORK US pages 630 - 635; S.M.R.TAHA: 'Speed improvements for dual-slope a/d converters' |