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EP About this file: EP2333707

EP2333707 - Method and apparatus for providing electronic phonebook [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  07.07.2017
Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.07.2017Refusal of applicationpublished on 09.08.2017  [2017/32]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
129, Samsung-ro
Yeongtong-gu
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 443-742 / KR
[2012/38]
Former [2011/24]For all designated states
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
416, Maetan-dong, Yeongtong-gu Suwon-si
Gyeonggi-do / KR
Inventor(s)01 / Jeon, Jae Choon
C/O Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 416 Maetan-dong, Yeongtong-gu
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do / KR
02 / Kim, Bum Soo
C/O Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 416, Maetan-dong, Yeongtong-gu
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do / KR
 [2011/24]
Representative(s)Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
P.O. Box 29720
2502 LS The Hague / NL
[2013/28]
Former [2012/04]van Westenbrugge, Andries, et al
Nederlandsch Octrooibureau J.W. Frisolaan 13
2517 JS Den Haag / NL
Former [2011/24]van Westenbrugge, Andries
Nederlandsch Octrooibureau J.W. Frisolaan 13
2517 JS Den Haag / NL
Application number, filing date10194097.108.12.2010
[2011/24]
Priority number, dateKR2009012131208.12.2009         Original published format: KR 20090121312
[2011/24]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2333707
Date:15.06.2011
Language:EN
[2011/24]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP04.03.2011
ClassificationIPC:G06Q10/00
[2011/24]
CPC:
G06Q10/10 (EP,US); H04B1/40 (KR)
Designated contracting statesAL,   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 [2011/24]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
TitleGerman:Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Bereitstellung eines elektronischen Telefonbuchs[2011/24]
English:Method and apparatus for providing electronic phonebook[2011/24]
French:Procédé et appareil pour fournir un annuaire électronique[2011/24]
Examination procedure14.12.2011Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
14.12.2011Examination requested  [2012/04]
05.11.2013Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
02.05.2014Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.12.2016Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 14.12.2016
14.12.2016Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
09.03.2017Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2017/32]
19.03.2017Application refused, date of legal effect [2017/32]
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  05.11.2013
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.10.2012Renewal fee patent year 03
22.10.2013Renewal fee patent year 04
10.10.2014Renewal fee patent year 05
11.11.2015Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[L]  - EPO, "Mitteilung des Europäischen Patentamts vom 1. Oktober 2007 über Geschäftsmethoden = Notice from the European Patent Office dated 1 October 2007 concerning business methods = Communiqué de l'Office européen des brevets,en date du 1er octobre 2007, concernant les méthodes dans le domaine des activités", JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE L'OFFICE EUROPEEN DES BREVETS.OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE.AMTSBLATTT DES EUROPAEISCHEN PATENTAMTS, OEB, MUNCHEN, DE, (20071101), vol. 30, no. 11, ISSN 0170-9291, pages 592 - 593, XP007905525 [L] 1-15 * The claimed subject matter, with due regard to the description and drawings, relates to processes comprised in the list of subject matter and activities excluded from patentability under Art.52(2) and (3) EPC. The applicant is advised that in accordance with the established practice of the EPO, no search need be performed in respect of those aspects of the claimed invention. The only identifiable technical aspects of the claimed invention relate to the use of conventional, general-purpose data processing technology for processing data of an inherently non-technical nature. The information technology employed is considered to have been generally known as it was widely available to everyone at the date of filing/priority of the present application. The notoriety of such prior art cannot reasonably be contested. No documentary evidence was therefore considered required. *
ExaminationUS2007004390
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