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EP About this file: EP0939944

EP0939944 - COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  19.10.2001
Database last updated on 23.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip19.10.2001No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 05.12.2001 [2001/49]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
81 Newgate Street London
EC1A 7AJ / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/36]For all designated states
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
81 Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ / GB
Inventor(s)01 / KNIGHT, Richard Robert
Bramcote, The Street
Ashfield, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 6LY / GB
02 / PARKINSON, David William
36 Henley Road
Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3SA / GB
03 / TUCK, Robert Ernest
14 The Greenway
Daventry, Northants NN11 4EE / GB
[1999/36]
Representative(s)Robinson, Simon Benjamin, et al
BT Group Legal Intellectual Property Department, PP C5A BT Centre 81 Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ / GB
[N/P]
Former [2001/15]Robinson, Simon Benjamin, et al
BT Group Legal Services, Intellectual Property Department 8th Floor, Holborn Centre 120 Holborn
London EC1N 2TE / GB
Former [1999/36]Wells, David, et al
BT Group Legal Services Intellectual Property Department, 8th Floor, Holborn Centre 120 Holborn
London EC1N 2TE / GB
Application number, filing date97912391.619.11.1997
[1999/36]
WO1997GB03180
Priority number, dateEP1996030854619.11.1996         Original published format: EP 96308546
[1999/36]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO9824078
Date:04.06.1998
Language:EN
[1998/22]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0939944
Date:08.09.1999
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 04.06.1998 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1999/36]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0939944
Date:13.12.2000
Language:EN
[2000/50]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP04.06.1998
ClassificationIPC:G08B25/01
[1999/36]
CPC:
H04Q11/0435 (EP,US); G08B26/00 (EP,US); H04M11/04 (EP,US);
H04W12/037 (EP,US); H04Q2213/1301 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13036 (EP,US);
H04Q2213/13092 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13098 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13176 (EP,US);
H04Q2213/13196 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13204 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13209 (EP,US);
H04Q2213/13216 (EP,US); H04Q2213/13296 (EP,US); H04Q2213/1337 (EP,US);
H04Q2213/13389 (EP,US); H04W74/06 (EP,US); H04W8/26 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   NL [1999/36]
TitleGerman:KOMMUNIKATIONSSYSTEM[1999/36]
English:COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM[1999/36]
French:SYSTEME DE COMMUNICATION[1999/36]
Entry into regional phase07.05.1999National basic fee paid 
07.05.1999Designation fee(s) paid 
07.05.1999Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure17.04.1998Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP
07.05.1999Examination requested  [1999/36]
07.02.2000Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
21.06.2000Communication of intention to grant the patent
31.08.2000Fee for grant paid
31.08.2000Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)14.09.2001No opposition filed within time limit [2001/49]
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.11.1999Renewal fee patent year 03
06.10.2000Renewal fee patent year 04
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Cited inInternational search[YA]US4466001  (MOORE MORRIS A [US], et al) [Y] 1 * abstract * * column 3, line 26 - line 51 * *Idem* [A] 4,10;
 [Y]JPH0322697  ;
 [A]WO8101933  (RACAL MILGO INC [US]) [A] 1,4 * abstract * * page 17, line 28 - line 33 * * page 18, line 6 - line 10 *;
 [A]US3713142  (GETCHELL E) [A] 6 * abstract * * column 5, line 19 - line 37 *;
 [A]DE2815183  (STADELMAYR HANS G) [A] 7 * figure 1; claim 1 * * page 20, line 11 - line 15 *;
 [A]JPH04185042
 [Y]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19910412), vol. 15, no. 147, Database accession no. (E - 1055), & JP03022697 A 19910131 (NEC CORP.) [Y] 1 * abstract *
 [A]  - SUBBARAO ET AL., "Development of a security network (SECNET) based on ISDN.", ANNUAL REVIEW OF COMMUNICATIONS, CHICAGO,IL.,U.S, (1994), vol. 48, pages 599 - 602, XP000543209 [A] 1 * the whole document *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19921015), vol. 16, no. 499, Database accession no. (E - 1280), & JP04185042 A 19920701 (TOSHIBA CORP.) [A] 2,9 * abstract *
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