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EP1889181 - METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROCESS A DATA SEARCH REQUEST [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 05.04.2013 Database last updated on 06.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	05.04.2013	Refusal of application	published on 08.05.2013 [2013/19]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states eBay Inc. 2145 Hamilton Avenue San Jose, CA 95125 / US
	[N/P]
Former [2008/08]	For all designated states Ebay, Inc. 2145 Hamilton Avenue San Jose, CA 95125 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / POSNER, Nicolas David 15 Calypso Lane San Carlos, California 94070 / US
	02 / IDURY, Ramana M. 1048 Polk Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	03 / HENDERSON, Richard Douglas 942 Michigan Avenue San Jose, California 95125 / US
	04 / SHOUP, Randall Scott 533 Liberty Street San Francisco, California 94114 / US
	05 / KUMAR, Vijay 900 Pepper Tree Lane no. 118 Santa Clara, California 95051 / US
	06 / MONIER, Louis Marcel Gino 4 Siskiyou Place Menlo Park, California 94025 / US
	07 / BAIRD-SMITH, Anselm Paul 3448 Madonna Drive San Jose, California 95117 / US
	08 / NELSON, Thomas 161 Old Ranch Road Santa Cruz, California 95060 / US
	09 / GUPTA, Raghav 1172 Corral Ave. Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	10 / TUTUNDJIAN, Raffi 1665 Chestnut Street no. 303 San Frasncisco, California 94123 / US
	11 / SMALLEY, Preston Grant 134 Gil Blas Road Danville, California 94526 / US
	12 / BOLIVAR Alvaro 111 Saragota Ave, Apt 2310 Santa Clara, CA 95051 / US
	[2010/04]
Former [2008/29]	01 / POSNER, Nicolas David 15 Calypso Lane San Carlos, California 94070 / US
	02 / IDURY, Ramana M. 1048 Polk Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	03 / HENDERSON, Richard Douglas 942 Michigan Avenue San Jose, California 95125 / US
	04 / SHOUP, Randall Scott 533 Liberty Street San Francisco, California 94114 / US
	05 / KUMAR, Vijay 900 Pepper Tree Lane no. 118 Santa Clara, California 95051 / US
	06 / MONIER, Louis Marcel Gino 4 Siskiyou Place Menlo Park, California 94025 / US
	07 / BAIRD-SMITH, Anselm Paul 3448 Madonna Drive San Jose, California 95117 / US
	08 / NELSON, Thomas 161 Old Ranch Road Santa Cruz, California 95060 / US
	09 / GUPTA, Raghav 1172 Corral Ave. Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	10 / TUTUNDJIAN, Raffi 1665 Chestnut Street no. 303 San Frasncisco, California 94123 / US
	11 / SMALLEY, Preston Grant 134 Gil Blas Road Danville, California 94526 / US
Former [2008/08]	01 / POSNER, Nicolas David 15 Calypso Lane San Carlos, California 94070 / US
	02 / IDURY, Ramana M. 1048 Polk Avenue Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	03 / HENDERSON, Richard Douglas 942 Michigan Avenue San Jose, California 95125 / US
	04 / SHOUP, Randall Scott 533 Liberty Street San Francisco, California 94114 / US
	05 / KUMAR, Vijay 900 Pepper Tree Lane no. 118 Santa Clara, California 95051 / US
	06 / MONIER, Louis Marcel Gino 4 Siskiyou Place Menlo Park, California 94025 / US
	07 / BAIRD-SMITH, Anselm Paul 3448 Madonna Drive San Jose, California 95117 / US
	08 / NELSON, Thomas 161 Old Ranch Road Santa Cruz, California 95060 / US
	09 / GUPTA, Raghav 1272 Corral Ave. Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US
	10 / TUTUNDJIAN, Raffi 1665 Chestnut Street no. 303 San Frasncisco, California 94123 / US
	11 / SMALLEY, Preston Grant 134 Gil Blas Road Danville, California 94526 / US
Representative(s)	Curley, Donnacha John, et al Hanna Moore + Curley Garryard House 25/26 Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2, D02 PX51 / IE
	[N/P]
Former [2008/08]	Curley, Donnacha John, et al Hanna, Moore & Curley 13 Lower Lad Lane Dublin 2 / IE
Application number, filing date	05770183.1	16.05.2005
	[2008/08]
	WO2005US17024
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2006124027
	Date:	23.11.2006
	Language:	EN
	[2006/47]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1889181
	Date:	20.02.2008
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 23.11.2006 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2008/08]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	23.11.2006
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	03.11.2009
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/30	[2008/08]
	CPC:	G06F16/90328 (EP,US); G06F16/90335 (US); G06F16/3322 (EP,US); G06F16/3338 (EP,US); G06F16/951 (US)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2008/08]
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	BA	Not yet paid
	HR	Not yet paid
	LV	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	YU	Not yet paid
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND SYSTEM ZUM VERARBEITEN EINER DATENSUCHANFORDERUNG	[2008/08]
	English:	METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROCESS A DATA SEARCH REQUEST	[2008/08]
	French:	PROCEDE ET SYSTEME DE TRAITEMENT DE DEMANDE DE RECHERCHE	[2008/08]
Entry into regional phase	17.12.2007	National basic fee paid
	17.12.2007	Search fee paid
	17.12.2007	Designation fee(s) paid
	17.12.2007	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	17.12.2007	Examination requested [2008/08]
	10.12.2010	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	20.06.2011	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	06.12.2012	Date of oral proceedings
	18.12.2012	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2013/19]
	28.12.2012	Application refused, date of legal effect [2013/19]
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 10.12.2010
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	17.12.2007	Renewal fee patent year 03
	28.05.2008	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.05.2009	Renewal fee patent year 05
	31.03.2010	Renewal fee patent year 06
	11.05.2011	Renewal fee patent year 07
	29.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Documents cited:	Search	[X]US6363377 (KRAVETS DINA [US], et al) [X] 1-30 * abstract * * column 3, line 57 - column 4, line 57 * * column 9, line 16 - column 13, line 36 * * figures 4,5,8,11 *;
		[X]US2002184206 (EVANS DAVID A [US]) [X] 1,11,23,24,30 * abstract * * paragraph [0021] - paragraph [0035] *;
		[X]US2003014405 (SHAPIRO JACOB [US], et al) [X] 1-30 * abstract * * paragraph [0020] - paragraph [0032] * * figures 5-7b * * claims 5-10 *;
		[X]US2003212666 (BASU SANKAR [US], et al) [X] 1,6-8,11,23-30 * abstract * * paragraph [0011] - paragraph [0013] * * paragraph [0028] - paragraph [0056] *;
		[X] - MARTI HEARST, "Chapter 10: User Interfaces and Visualization", MODERN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, New York, (1999), pages 257 - 323, URL: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/print/chap10.pdf, (20091015), XP002550611 [X] 1-30 * page 278 - page 288 *
		[XA] - ZUKERMAN I ET AL, "Query expansion and query reduction in document retrieval", PROCEEDINGS 15TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ICTAI 2003. SACRAMENTO, CA, NOV. 3 - 5, 2003; [IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TOOLS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE], LOS ALAMITOS, CA, IEEE COMP. SOC, US, (20031103), vol. CONF. 15, ISBN 978-0-7695-2038-4, pages 552 - 559, XP010672276 [X] 24-30 * the whole document * [A] 1-23 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAI.2003.1250240
	International search	[Y]US6516312 (KRAFT REINER [US], et al);
		[Y]US2004199491 (BHATT NIKHIL [US]);
		[Y]US2005027705 (SADRI PASHA [US], et al)
	Examination	- VOORHEES E M ED - CROFT W B ET AL, "QUERY EXPANSION USING LEXICAL-SEMANTIC RELATIONS", SIGIR '94. DUBLIN, JULY 3 - 6, 1994; [PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM-SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL], BERLIN, SPRINGER, DE, (19940703), vol. CONF. 17, pages 61 - 69, XP000475315
	by applicant	US6363377
		US2002184206
		US2003014405
		US2003212666

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