EP2377243 - SIGNAL GENERATING SYSTEM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.04.2015 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.06.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 25.07.2018 [2018/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited Tubney Woods Abingdon Oxon OX13 5QX / GB | [2011/42] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
YORK, David, Andrew 8 Granville Close Hanham Bristol BS15 3TJ / GB | 02 /
HALSALL, Brian Myrtle Cottage Says Lane Langford Bristol BS40 5EA / GB | 03 /
CHANCE, Gregory Ian 21 Belton Road Easton Bristol BS5 OJS / GB | [2011/42] | Representative(s) | Skone James, Robert Edmund Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street London EC2A 2ES / GB | [2014/24] |
Former [2011/42] | Skone James, Robert Edmund Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street London EC2A 2ES / GB | Application number, filing date | 09803884.7 | 22.12.2009 | WO2009GB02935 | Priority number, date | GB20080023565 | 24.12.2008 Original published format: GB 0823565 | [2011/42] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2010073006 | Date: | 01.07.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/26] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2377243 | Date: | 19.10.2011 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 01.07.2010 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2011/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2377243 | Date: | 11.06.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/24] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 01.07.2010 | Classification | IPC: | H03H7/40 | [2011/42] | CPC: |
H03H7/40 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2014/24] | Extension states | AL | Not yet paid | BA | Not yet paid | RS | Not yet paid | Title | German: | SIGNALERZEUGUNGSSYSTEM | [2011/42] | English: | SIGNAL GENERATING SYSTEM | [2011/42] | French: | SYSTÈME DE GÉNÉRATION DE SIGNAL | [2011/42] | Entry into regional phase | 15.07.2011 | National basic fee paid | 15.07.2011 | Designation fee(s) paid | 15.07.2011 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 20.10.2010 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 24.06.2011 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 15.07.2011 | Examination requested [2011/42] | 01.06.2012 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 31.10.2012 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.05.2013 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 02.09.2013 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.01.2014 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 10.02.2014 | Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO | 25.03.2014 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 01.05.2014 | Fee for grant paid | 01.05.2014 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 01.05.2014 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 01.06.2012 | Opposition(s) | 12.03.2015 | No opposition filed within time limit [2015/21] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.12.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.12.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.12.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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