EP2364061 - Circuits and methods for driving light sources [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.06.2014 Database last updated on 26.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 14.11.2018 [2018/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states O2 Micro, Inc. 3118 Patrick Henry Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 / US | [2011/36] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Yan, Tiesheng 3F, Building B, Chuangxinzhongxin, No. 5 Gaopeng Road South High-Tech Development Zone 610041 Chengdu / CN | 02 /
Li, Youling 17A Fl., BenYuan Building, No. 6015 ShenNan Avenue 518040 Shenzhen / CN | 03 /
Lin, Feng 3F, Building B, Chuangxinzhongxin, No. 5 Gaopeng Road South High-Tech Development Zone 610041 Chengdu / CN | 04 /
Su, Xinhe 3F, Building B, Chuangxinzhongxin, No. 5 Gaopeng Road South High-Tech Development Zone 610041 Chengdu / CN | 05 /
Kuo, Ching-Chuan 11F, No. 54, Sec. 4, Min-Sheng E. Rd. 105 Taipei City / TW | [2011/36] | Representative(s) | Lippert Stachow Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB Postfach 30 02 08 51412 Bergisch Gladbach / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2011/36] | Lippert, Stachow & Partner Patentanwälte Postfach 30 02 08 51412 Bergisch Gladbach / DE | Application number, filing date | 10186686.1 | 06.10.2010 | [2011/36] | Priority number, date | US20100761681 | 16.04.2010 Original published format: US 761681 | CN201010119888 | 04.03.2010 Original published format: CN201010119888 | [2011/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2364061 | Date: | 07.09.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/36] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2364061 | Date: | 27.06.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/26] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2364061 | Date: | 21.08.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/34] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.05.2012 | Classification | IPC: | H05B33/08 | [2011/36] | CPC: |
H05B47/10 (EP,US);
H05B45/375 (EP,US);
H05B45/38 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2011/36] | Title | German: | Schaltungen und Verfahren zur Ansteuerung von Lichtquellen | [2011/36] | English: | Circuits and methods for driving light sources | [2011/36] | French: | Circuits et procédés pour la commande de sources lumineuses | [2011/36] | Examination procedure | 06.12.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 06.12.2012 | Examination requested [2013/03] | 07.05.2013 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 10.07.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 10.07.2013 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 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 07.05.2013 | Opposition(s) | 22.05.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/31] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.10.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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Former [2014/07] | NO | 21.11.2013 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]WO2008001246 (KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV [NL], et al) [A] 1-10 * pages 2-8; figure 1 *; | [A]US2008180075 (XIE MANJING [US], et al) [A] 1-10 * pages 2-4; figure 8 *; | [A]US2008100273 (URUNO JUNPEI [JP], et al) [A] 1-10 * page 3; figure 1 * |