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EP0720164
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| EP0720164 - Controlling apparatus and method of controlling tracking for tape-shaped recording medium [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 30.08.2002 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 30.08.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 16.10.2002 [2002/42] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Sony Corporation 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/27] | For all designated states SONY CORPORATION 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Deoka, Yoshihiko c/o Sony Corp., 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1996/27] | Representative(s) | Nicholls, Michael John J A Kemp 14 South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5JJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/27] | Nicholls, Michael John J.A. KEMP & CO. 14, South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX / GB | Application number, filing date | 95309492.7 | 28.12.1995 | [1996/27] | Priority number, date | JP19940340235 | 29.12.1994 Original published format: JP 34023594 | [1996/27] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0720164 | Date: | 03.07.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/27] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0720164 | Date: | 15.10.1997 | [1997/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0720164 | Date: | 24.10.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.08.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G11B15/467, G11B27/30 | [1997/41] | CPC: |
G11B27/30 (EP,US);
G11B15/46 (KR);
G11B15/4673 (EP,US);
G11B15/14 (EP,US);
G11B15/4678 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1996/27] | G11B15/467 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1996/27] | Title | German: | Steuerungsvorrichtung und -verfahren zur Spurfolgesteuerung für ein bandförmiges Aufzeichnungsmedium | [1996/27] | English: | Controlling apparatus and method of controlling tracking for tape-shaped recording medium | [1996/27] | French: | Appareil et méthode de commande de suivi de piste pour milieu d'enregistrement en forme de bande | [1996/27] | Examination procedure | 24.03.1998 | Examination requested [1998/21] | 13.07.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 23.02.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 27.04.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.02.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 19.04.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.07.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 13.07.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 25.07.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/42] | Request for further processing for: | 27.04.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 27.04.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 12.05.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.12.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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