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EP0730365 - Audio communication control unit for teleconferencing systems [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Former [1996/36]Audio communication control unit
[2004/25]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  21.10.2005
Database last updated on 20.05.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip21.10.2005No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 07.12.2005  [2005/49]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 3-chome Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 163-19 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1996/36]For all designated states
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
19-2 Nishi-Shinjuku 3-chome
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-19 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Kinoshita, Ikuichiro
3-20-2-216, Hinode-cho
Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa / JP
02 / Aoki, Shigeaki
1-102, 510, Tsukui
Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa / JP
03 / Okamoto, Manabu
1-33-1-314, Tomioka-higashi, Kanazawa-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa / JP
04 / Hayashi, Nobuo
8-305, 9-2, Sugita, Isogo-ku
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa / JP
[1996/36]
Representative(s)MERH-IP Matias Erny Reichl Hoffmann Patentanwälte PartG mbB
Paul-Heyse-Strasse 29
80336 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1996/36]Hoffmann, Eckart, Dipl.-Ing.
Patentanwalt, Bahnhofstrasse 103
82166 Gräfelfing / DE
Application number, filing date96103072.329.02.1996
[1996/36]
Priority number, dateJP1995004185101.03.1995         Original published format: JP 4185195
JP1995015962126.06.1995         Original published format: JP 15962195
JP1995015962226.06.1995         Original published format: JP 15962295
[1996/36]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0730365
Date:04.09.1996
Language:EN
[1996/36]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0730365
Date:07.01.1998
[1998/02]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0730365
Date:15.12.2004
Language:EN
[2004/51]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP13.11.1997
ClassificationIPC:H04M3/56
[1996/36]
CPC:
H04S3/00 (EP,US); H04M3/56 (EP,US); H04M3/568 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1996/36]
TitleGerman:Audiokommunikationssteuereinheit für Telekonferenzsysteme[2004/25]
English:Audio communication control unit for teleconferencing systems[2004/25]
French:Unité de contrôle de communication audio pour un système de téléconférence[2004/25]
Former [1996/36]Audiokommunikationssteuereinheit
Former [1996/36]Audio communication control unit
Former [1996/36]Unité de commande d'une communication audio
Examination procedure29.02.1996Examination requested  [1996/36]
06.12.2002Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
23.05.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
08.06.2004Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.10.2004Fee for grant paid
07.10.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)16.09.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/49]
Fees paidRenewal fee
26.02.1998Renewal fee patent year 03
25.02.1999Renewal fee patent year 04
24.02.2000Renewal fee patent year 05
29.08.2000Renewal fee patent year 06
28.02.2002Renewal fee patent year 07
27.02.2003Renewal fee patent year 08
26.02.2004Renewal fee patent year 09
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Documents cited:Search[A]JPH0410743  ;
 [A]US4734934  (BOGGS GEORGE J [US], et al) [A] 1;
 [A]JPH077557  (OKI ELECTRIC IND CO LTD, et al);
 [A]  - SHOJI SHIMADA ET AL, "A NEW TALKER LOCATION RECOGNITION THROUGH SOUND IMAGE LOCALIZATION CONTROL IN MULTIPOINT TELECONFERENCES SYSTEM", ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS IN JAPAN, PART I - COMMUNICATIONS, (19890201), vol. 72, no. 2, pages 20 - 27, XP000124912 [A] 1 * the whole document *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19920417), vol. 016, no. 158, Database accession no. (E - 1191), & JP04010743 A 19920114 (NIPPON TELEGR & TELEPH CORP) [A] * abstract *
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