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EP0689695
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0689695
| EP0689695 - FAULT TOLERANT MEMORY SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.05.2000 Database last updated on 26.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Memory Corporation PLC The Computer House, Dalkeith Palace Dalkeith Edinburgh EH22 2NA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/04] | For all designated states Memory Corporation plc The Computer House, Dalkeith Palace Dalkeith, Edinburgh EH22 2NA / GB | ||
| Former [1996/01] | For all designated states Memory Limited The Computer House, Dalkeith Palace Dalkeith, Edinburgh EH22 2NA / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
DEAS, Alexander, Roger 8 Eskview Grove Dalkeith Edinburgh EH22 1JW / GB | [1996/01] | Representative(s) | MacDougall, Donald Carmichael, et al Marks & Clerk LLP Aurora 120 Bothwell Street Glasgow G2 7JS / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/04] | MacDougall, Donald Carmichael, et al Cruikshank & Fairweather 19 Royal Exchange Square Glasgow G1 3AE, Scotland / GB | ||
| Former [1997/39] | Cullis, Roger, et al Patents Department British Technology Group Ltd 101 Newington Causeway London SE1 6BU / GB | ||
| Former [1996/01] | Szczuka, Jan Tymoteusz, et al Cruikshank & Fairweather 19 Royal Exchange Square Glasgow G1 3AE Scotland / GB | Application number, filing date | 94909995.6 | 21.03.1994 | [1996/01] | WO1994GB00577 | Priority number, date | GB19930005801 | 19.03.1993 Original published format: GB 9305801 | [1996/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9422085 | Date: | 29.09.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/22] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0689695 | Date: | 03.01.1996 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 29.09.1994 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1996/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0689695 | Date: | 28.07.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/30] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 29.09.1994 | Classification | IPC: | G06F11/20 | [1996/01] | CPC: |
G11C29/80 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1996/01] | Title | German: | FEHLERTOLERANTES SPEICHERSYSTEM | [1996/01] | English: | FAULT TOLERANT MEMORY SYSTEM | [1996/01] | French: | SYSTEME DE MEMOIRE INSENSIBLE AUX DEFAILLANCES | [1996/01] | Entry into regional phase | 06.10.1995 | National basic fee paid | 06.10.1995 | Designation fee(s) paid | 06.10.1995 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 14.10.1994 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 06.10.1995 | Examination requested [1996/01] | 13.02.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 24.06.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.12.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 17.04.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.05.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 04.12.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 23.12.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.03.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 23.03.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 29.04.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/28] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.03.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.05.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.02.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 11.03.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.03.1997 | 04 M06 Fee paid on 22.05.1997 |
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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 | 28.07.1999 | IT | 28.07.1999 | DE | 29.10.1999 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2006/14] | FR | 28.07.1999 | |
| DE | 29.10.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/25] | DE | 29.10.1999 | |
| FR | 24.12.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/23] | DE | 29.10.1999 | Cited in | International search | [XAY]EP0178950 (FUJITSU LTD [JP]) [X] 1,2,9,13,14 * page 4, line 3 - page 8, line 7; figure 1 * * page 10, line 23 - line 28 * * page 16, line 6 - line 12 * [A] 5 [Y] 3,11; | [XA]EP0178949 (FUJITSU LTD [JP]) [X] 1,2,9,13,14 * page 4, line 9 - page 10, line 4; figures 1-2 *[A] 5 | [Y] - MITCHELL, M.J.JR., "Alternate storage position mechanism", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, (197002), vol. 12, no. 9, pages 1478 - 1479 [Y] 3,11 |