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EP1438843 - TRICK MODES USING NON-PROGRESSIVE DUMMY PREDICTIVE PICTURES [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 19.07.2013 Database last updated on 08.06.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	19.07.2013	Refusal of application	published on 21.08.2013 [2013/34]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Thomson Licensing 1-5, rue Jeanne d'Arc 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux / FR
	[N/P]
Former [2010/07]	For all designated states Thomson Licensing 1, rue Jeanne d'Arc 92443 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex / FR
Former [2005/40]	For all designated states Thomson Licensing 46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo 92100 Boulogne Billancourt / FR
Former [2004/30]	For all designated states Thomson Licensing S.A. 46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo 92648 Boulogne Cedex / FR
Inventor(s)	01 / LIN, Shu 9339 D. Notre Dame Drive Indianapolis, IN 46240 / US
	02 / WILLIS, Donald, Henry 5175 East 74th Place Indianapolis, IN 46250 / US
	[2004/30]
Representative(s)	Hartnack, Wolfgang Deutsche Thomson OHG Karl-Wiechert-Allee 1D 30625 Hannover / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2004/30]	Hartnack, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing. Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH European Patent Operations Karl-Wiechert-Allee 74 30625 Hannover / DE
Application number, filing date	02784218.6	22.10.2002
	[2004/30]
	WO2002US33826
Priority number, date	US20010334914P	23.10.2001 Original published format: US 334914 P
	[2004/30]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO03036953
	Date:	01.05.2003
	Language:	EN
	[2003/18]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1438843
	Date:	21.07.2004
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 01.05.2003 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2004/30]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	01.05.2003
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	08.04.2010
Classification	IPC:	H04N5/76, H04N5/85, H04N5/91, H04N5/781, H04N5/783, H04N5/917, H04N7/26	[2004/30]
	CPC:	H04N5/783 (EP,KR,US); G06T9/004 (EP,US); H04N21/4325 (EP,US); H04N21/440281 (EP,US); H04N5/7828 (EP,US); H04N9/8042 (EP,US); (+) H04N5/775 (EP,US); H04N5/85 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, SK, TR [2004/30]
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:	TRICKBETRIEBSARTEN MIT NICHTPROGRESSIVEN PRÄDIKTIVEN DUMMY-BILDERN	[2004/30]
	English:	TRICK MODES USING NON-PROGRESSIVE DUMMY PREDICTIVE PICTURES	[2004/30]
	French:	MODES DE TRUQUAGE FAISANT INTERVENIR DES IMAGES PREVISIONNELLES FICTIVES NON PROGRESSIVES	[2004/30]
Entry into regional phase	23.04.2004	National basic fee paid
	23.04.2004	Search fee paid
	23.04.2004	Designation fee(s) paid
	23.04.2004	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	21.05.2003	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
	23.04.2004	Examination requested [2004/30]
	17.09.2010	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	10.03.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	18.03.2013	Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 06.06.2013
	03.04.2013	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2013/34]
	13.04.2013	Application refused, date of legal effect [2013/34]
	06.06.2013	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 17.09.2010
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.10.2004	Renewal fee patent year 03
	22.10.2005	Renewal fee patent year 04
	21.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 05
	24.10.2007	Renewal fee patent year 06
	25.10.2008	Renewal fee patent year 07
	27.10.2009	Renewal fee patent year 08
	26.10.2010	Renewal fee patent year 09
	24.10.2011	Renewal fee patent year 10
	26.10.2012	Renewal fee patent year 11
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Documents cited:	Search	[A]US5805762 (BOYCE JILL MACDONALD [US], et al) [A] 9 * column 50, line 66 - column 52, line 53; figure 11 *;
		[XA]US6192186 (MURASHIMA HIROTSUGU [JP], et al) [X] 1-2,8,12-13,15-16 * column 3, line 36 - column 6, line 21; figures 1,2 * [A] 3-6,10,14,17;
		[XA]US6219381 (SAWADA TAKAAKI [JP], et al) [X] 1-2,9-10 * column 1, line 10 - line 33 * * column 3, line 55 - column 4, line 16 * * column 4, line 39 - column 5, line 5 * * column 8, line 58 - column 9, line 20; figures 3,5,14 * [A] 3;
		[E]WO03036952 (THOMSON LICENSING SA [FR], et al) [E] 1-2,8-10,12-18 * the whole document *;
		[E]WO03036971 (THOMSON LICENSING SA [FR], et al) [E] 1-2,8-9,12-18 * the whole document *;
		[E]WO03036991 (THOMSON LICENSING SA [FR], et al) [E] 1-2,8-9,12-13,18 * the whole document *;
		[E]WO03036809 (THOMSON LICENSING SA [FR], et al) [E] 1-2,8-9,12-13 * page 2, line 8 - line 13 * * page 3, line 5 - page 5, line 8 * * page 12, line 16 - page 13, line 3 ** figure 1; claim 1 *;
		[E]WO03053053 (THOMSON LICENSING SA [FR], et al) [E] 1-6,8-10,12-18 * the whole document *
	International search	[X]WO9613121 (THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS [US], et al);
		[Y]US5978855 (METZ ERIK CHRISTOPHER [US], et al);
		[Y]US5684539 (BOYCE JILL MACDONALD [US], et al);
		[X]WO9965239 (KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV [NL], et al);
		[A]US5978542 (TING HOU-CHUN [TW], et al)
	Examination	WO9613123
		EP1115252
		WO02087232

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