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EP1257916 - SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING TO AND FROM HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 20.03.2009 Database last updated on 19.10.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	20.03.2009	Refusal of application	published on 22.04.2009 [2009/17]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Accenture LLP 1661 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 / US
	[2002/47]
Inventor(s)	01 / MILLEKER, William, N. 180 Lawton Riverside, IL 60546 / US
	02 / JOSHI, Dhananjay, M. 318 Park Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091 / US
	03 / PHILLIPS, Jay Accenture, Suite 1101 355 Alhambra Coral Gables, Florida 33134 / US
	04 / HUDGONS, Morrisha 6030 N. Sheridan Road 811 Chicago, IL 60660 / US
	[2003/10]
Former [2002/47]	01 / MILLEKER, William, N. 180 Lawton Riverside, IL 60546 / US
	02 / JOSHI, Dhananjay, M. 318 Park Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091 / US
	03 / PHILLIPS, Jay 2115 N. Cleveland Avenue 2 Chicago, IL 60614 / US
	04 / HUDGONS, Morrisha 6030 N. Sheridan Road 811 Chicago, IL 60660 / US
Representative(s)	McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2002/47]	McLeish, Nicholas Alistair Maxwell, et al Boult Wade Tennant Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB
Application number, filing date	00990967.2	29.12.2000
	[2002/47]
	WO2000US35673
Priority number, date	US20000479840	07.01.2000 Original published format: US 479840
	[2002/47]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO0152063
	Date:	19.07.2001
	Language:	EN
	[2001/29]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1257916
	Date:	20.11.2002
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 19.07.2001 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2002/47]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	19.07.2001
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	21.02.2005
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/30	[2005/12]
	CPC:	G06F16/258 (EP,US); Y10S707/99931 (US); Y10S707/99932 (US); Y10S707/99934 (US); Y10S707/99943 (US); Y10S707/99953 (US)
	Former IPC [2002/47]	G06F9/455, G06F17/30, G06F3/14, G06F9/45, G06F9/44
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR [2002/47]
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:	SYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR ÜBERSETZUNG IN UND AUS HIERARCHISCHEN INFORMATIONSSYSTEMEN	[2002/47]
	English:	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSLATING TO AND FROM HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS	[2002/47]
	French:	SYSTEME ET PROCEDE DE TRANSLATION VERS DES SYSTEMES D'INFORMATION HIERARCHIQUES ET A PARTIR DE CEUX-CI	[2002/47]
Entry into regional phase	17.07.2002	National basic fee paid
	17.07.2002	Search fee paid
	17.07.2002	Designation fee(s) paid
	17.07.2002	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	03.08.2001	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	17.07.2002	Examination requested [2002/47]
	13.10.2005	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	24.04.2006	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	13.07.2007	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	22.01.2008	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	25.11.2008	Application refused, date of legal effect [2009/17]
	25.11.2008	Date of oral proceedings
	02.12.2008	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2009/17]
	02.12.2008	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.12.2002	Renewal fee patent year 03
	03.12.2003	Renewal fee patent year 04
	03.12.2004	Renewal fee patent year 05
	05.12.2005	Renewal fee patent year 06
	27.12.2006	Renewal fee patent year 07
	24.12.2007	Renewal fee patent year 08
	24.12.2008	Renewal fee patent year 09
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		[X]US5970490 (MORGENSTERN MATTHEW [US]) [X] 1-12 * figure 2 * * column 2, line 60 - column 3, line 1 * * column 7, line 24 - line 37 * * column 7, line 63 - column 8, line 7 *;
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		[X] - NOFFSINGER W B ET AL, "Legacy object modeling speeds software integration", COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY, ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY. NEW YORK, US, (199812), vol. 41, no. 12, ISSN 0001-0782, pages 80 - 89, XP002186696 [X] 1-12 * figure 5 * * page 84, column R * * page 88 - page 89 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/290133.290153
		[X] - ROY M, "BUSINESS OBJECTS AND LEGACY INTEGRATION", OBJECT MAGAZINE, XX, XX, (199710), vol. 7, no. 8, ISSN 1055-3614, pages 20 - 22, XP001023134 [X] 1-12 * figures 1,2 * * page 21 *
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	International search	[Y]US5331579 (MAGUIRE JR HAROLD T [US], et al);
		[Y]US5613122 (BURNARD DAVID J [US], et al);
		[Y]US5630131 (PALEVICH JACK H [US], et al);
		[A]US5642511 (CHOW CHUNGHEN [US], et al);
		[Y]US5737559 (ORTON DEBRA L [US], et al);
		[Y]US5838965 (KAVANAGH THOMAS S [US], et al);
		[A]US5945992 (CUNNIFF ROSS [US])
	by applicant	US5970490

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