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EP1232456 - DISTRIBUTING AND BILLING SOFTWARE ACCORDING TO CUSTOMER USE OF PROGRAM MODULES [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 15.06.2012 Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	15.06.2012	Refusal of application	published on 18.07.2012 [2012/29]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Invensys Systems, Inc. 33 Commercial Street Foxboro, MA 02035-2099 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2006/04]	For all designated states Invensys Systems, Inc. 33 Commercial Street Foxboro, MA 02035-2099 / AU
Former [2002/34]	For all designated states Wonderware Corporation 100 Technology Drive Irvine, CA 92618 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / SOWELL, Timothy, Charles 26561 Rancho Parkway South Lake Forest, CA 92630 / US
	[2002/41]
Former [2002/34]	01 / SOWELL, Timothy, Charles 2814 Lafayette Avenue Newport Beach, CA 92663 / US
Representative(s)	Friese, Martin Andrae l Westendorp Patentanwälte Partnerschaft Balanstrasse 55 81541 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2011/48]	Friese, Martin Patentanwälte Andrae Flach Haug Balanstrasse 55 81541 München / DE
Former [2002/34]	Prins, Adrianus Willem Vereenigde, Nieuwe Parklaan 97 2587 BN Den Haag / NL
Application number, filing date	00970809.0	12.10.2000
	[2002/34]
	WO2000US28155
Priority number, date	US19990418943	15.10.1999 Original published format: US 418943
	[2002/34]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO0129728
	Date:	26.04.2001
	Language:	EN
	[2001/17]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1232456
	Date:	21.08.2002
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 26.04.2001 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2002/34]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	26.04.2001
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	20.02.2008
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/60	[2002/34]
	CPC:	G06Q30/04 (EP,US); G06F21/105 (EP,US); G06Q30/0283 (EP,US); G06Q50/184 (EP,US); G06F2221/2135 (EP,US); G06F2221/2137 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	DE, GB [2004/22]
Former [2002/34]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	LT	Not yet paid
	LV	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	RO	Not yet paid
	SI	Not yet paid
Title	German:	AUF DIE KUNDENVERWENDUNG VON PROGRAMMMODULEN BASIERENDE SOFTWAREVERTEILUNG UND SOFTWAREABRECHNUNG	[2002/34]
	English:	DISTRIBUTING AND BILLING SOFTWARE ACCORDING TO CUSTOMER USE OF PROGRAM MODULES	[2002/34]
	French:	DISTRIBUTION ET FACTURATION DE LOGICIEL EN FONCTION DE L'UTILISATION DE MODULES DE PROGRAMMES PAR LE CLIENT	[2002/34]
Entry into regional phase	10.05.2002	National basic fee paid
	10.05.2002	Search fee paid
	10.05.2002	Designation fee(s) paid
	10.05.2002	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	30.04.2001	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	10.05.2002	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	10.05.2002	Examination requested [2002/34]
	23.07.2008	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	27.01.2009	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	14.03.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	26.09.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	20.02.2012	Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 09.03.2012
	27.02.2012	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2012/29]
	08.03.2012	Application refused, date of legal effect [2012/29]
	09.03.2012	Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 23.07.2008
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	07.10.2002	Renewal fee patent year 03
	06.10.2003	Renewal fee patent year 04
	06.10.2004	Renewal fee patent year 05
	07.10.2005	Renewal fee patent year 06
	05.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 07
	15.10.2007	Renewal fee patent year 08
	07.10.2008	Renewal fee patent year 09
	07.10.2009	Renewal fee patent year 10
	23.09.2010	Renewal fee patent year 11
	10.10.2011	Renewal fee patent year 12
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Rights in Rem or Legal Means of Execution	ID:	01
	For:	AT BE DE GB
	Date:	17.11.2005
	[2006/04]
Documents cited:	Search	[X]EP0332304 (DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP [US]) [X] 1-73 * abstract *;
		[X]US5023907 (JOHNSON HERRICK J [US], et al) [X] 1-73 * the whole document *;
		[X]WO9311480 (INTERGRAPH CORP [US]) [X] 1-73 * abstract * * page 5, line 13 - page 6, line 32 * * page 12, line 28 - page 13, line 3 *;
		[X]US5905860 (OLSEN JAMES E [US], et al) [X] 1-73 * abstract * * column 4, line 12 - line 37 * * column 5, line 6 - column 8, line 41 * * column 11, line 37 - column 12, line 30 * * column 15, line 3 - line 47 * * column 16, line 5 - line 30 *;
		[X]US5940504 (GRISWOLD GARY N [US]) [X] 1-73 * abstract *;
		[A]WO9858306 (TECHWAVE INC [US], et al) [A] 1-73 * abstract *
		[A] - "TRACKING CONCURRENT USAGE LICENSE PRODUCTS INSTALLED ON CLIENT'S MACHINE", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, IBM CORP. NEW YORK, US, (19940801), vol. 37, no. 8, ISSN 0018-8689, page 345, XP000456446 [A] 1-73 * the whole document *
		[A] - "COUNTING USERS OF AN OPERATING SYSTEM", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, IBM CORP. NEW YORK, US, (19950301), vol. 38, no. 3, ISSN 0018-8689, pages 579 - 581, XP000508145 [A] 1-73 * the whole document *
	International search	[X]US5940504 (GRISWOLD GARY N [US]);
		[A]US5745879 (WYMAN ROBERT M [US]);
		[A]US5930357 (FUKUI TOSHIYUKI [JP]);
		[A]US5935243 (HASEBE TAKAYUKI [JP], et al);
		[AP]US6049789 (FRISON MICHAEL R [US], et al);
		[AP]US6073124 (KRISHNAN GANAPATHY [US], et al)

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