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EP2278762
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| EP2278762 - Apparatus and method for optical modulation [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.08.2017 Database last updated on 29.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.08.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 06.09.2017 [2017/36] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Oclaro Technology Limited Caswell Towcester Northamptonshire NN12 8EQ / GB | [2015/09] |
| Former [2011/04] | For all designated states Oclaro Technology PLC Caswell Towcester Northamptonshire NN12 8EQ / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Griffin, Robert 4 Kensington Close Towcenter Northants NN12 6JL / GB | [2016/39] |
| Former [2011/04] | 01 /
Griffin, Robert 4 Kensington Close Towcenter Northants NN12 6JL / GB | Representative(s) | HGF 1 City Walk Leeds LS11 9DX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2016/39] | HGF Limited 1 City Walk Leeds LS11 9DX / GB | ||
| Former [2011/23] | Harrison Goddard Foote Belgrave Hall Belgrave Street Leeds LS2 8DD / GB | ||
| Former [2011/04] | Townsend, Victoria Jayne Fry Heath & Spence LLP 25 Southampton Buildings London WC2A 1AL / GB | Application number, filing date | 10011560.9 | 18.12.2001 | [2011/04] | Priority number, date | GB20000031386 | 21.12.2000 Original published format: GB 0031386 | [2011/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2278762 | Date: | 26.01.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/04] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2278762 | Date: | 26.09.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/39] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2278762 | Date: | 28.09.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/39] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 29.08.2012 | Classification | IPC: | H04L25/03, H04B10/556 | [2015/44] | CPC: |
H04B10/5561 (EP,US);
H04L25/03343 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [2011/04] | H04L25/03, H04B10/18, H04B10/155, H04L27/22 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [2016/39] |
| Former [2011/04] | DE, FR, GB, NL | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG UND VERFAHREN ZUR OPTISCHEN MODULATION | [2015/44] | English: | Apparatus and method for optical modulation | [2011/04] | French: | Dispositif et procédé de modulation optique | [2011/04] |
| Former [2011/04] | Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur optischen Modulation | Examination procedure | 22.03.2013 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 22.03.2013 | Examination requested [2013/18] | 14.04.2015 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 17.08.2015 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.11.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 29.03.2016 | Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO | 22.04.2016 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.08.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 15.08.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 15.08.2016 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP01271709.6 / EP1344362 | 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 (EP20010271709) is 17.04.2007 | Opposition(s) | 29.06.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/36] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 13.12.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 12.12.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 11.12.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 12.12.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 13 | 11.12.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 14 | 10.12.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 15 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | NL | 28.09.2016 | [2017/21] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US6137604 (BERGANO NEAL S [US]) [A] 1-21 * abstract * * figure 1 *; | [A]US4893352 (WELFORD DAVID [US]) [A] 1-21 * column 5, line 4 - line 19 *; | [A]EP0898389 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1-21 * paragraphs [0009] , [0133] , [0138] , [0144] - [0150]; figures 4-6,11 * | [A] - JOYCE G R ET AL, "Fiber distribution for 80 compressed digital video channels using differential QPSK", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC). GENEVA, MAY 23 - 26, 1993, NEW YORK, IEEE, US, (19930523), vol. 3, ISBN 0-7803-0950-2, pages 1583 - 1585, XP010137150 [A] 1-21 * abstract * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICC.1993.397550 | [A] - LIMA M J N ET AL, "Optimization of apodized fiber grating filters for WDM systems", LEOS '99. IEEE LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS SOCIETY 1999 12TH ANNUAL MEETING SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA 8-11 NOV. 1999, PISCATAWAY, USA, (19991108), ISBN 0-7803-5634-9, pages 876 - 877, XP010361154 [A] 1-21 * Introduction * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1999.812014 | [A] - GROSS R ET AL, "OPTICAL DQPSK VIDEO SYSTEM WITH HETERODYNE DETECTION", IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, IEEE INC. NEW YORK, US, (199103), vol. 3, no. 3, ISSN 1041-1135, pages 262 - 264, XP000202945 [A] 1-21 * figure 1 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/68.79774 | [A] - BIERNACKI P D ET AL, "A TWO-CHANNEL OPTICAL DOWNCONVERTER FOR PHASE DETECTION", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, IEEE INC. NEW YORK, US, (199811), vol. 46, no. 11, PART 1, ISSN 0018-9480, pages 1784 - 1787, XP000785812 [A] 1-21 * page 1785, column L * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/22.734580 | by applicant | - S. YAMAZAKI; K. EMURA, "Feasibility study on QPSK optical heterodyne detection system", J. LIGHTWAVE TECHNOL., (1990), vol. 8, doi:doi:10.1109/50.60560, pages 1646 - 1653, XP000174434 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/50.60560 | - M. ROHDE ET AL., "Robustness of DPSK direct detection transmission format in standard fibre WDM systems", ELECTRON. LETT., (2000), vol. 36, doi:doi:10.1049/el:20000981, XP006015582 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el:20000981 |