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EP About this file: EP2870821

EP2870821 - Mobile user equipment apparatus and method for operating a relay cell [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Former [2015/20]COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
[2019/43]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  23.07.2021
Database last updated on 08.06.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  14.08.2020
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  07.04.2020
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  02.03.2020
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  28.10.2019
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  31.03.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip22.07.2022Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): BE		published on 24.08.2022  [2022/34]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NEC Corporation
7-1, Shiba 5-chome
Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8001 / JP
[2020/38]
Former [2015/20]For all designated states
NEC Corporation
7-1 Shiba 5-chome
Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8001 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / DELSOL, Thomas
c/o NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd. The Imperium
Imperial Way
Reading Berkshire RG2 0TD / GB
02 / PANAITOPOL, Dorin
c/o NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd. The Imperium
Imperial Way
Reading Berkshire RG2 0TD / GB
 [2015/20]
Representative(s)MacDougall, Alan John Shaw
Mathys & Squire The Shard
32 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9SG / GB
[N/P]
Former [2015/20]MacDougall, Alan John Shaw
Mathys & Squire LLP The Shard
32 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9SG / GB
Application number, filing date13870975.321.11.2013
[2020/38]
WO2013JP81985
Priority number, dateGB2013000053411.01.2013         Original published format: GB 201300534
[2015/20]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2014109142
Date:17.07.2014
Language:EN
[2014/29]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2870821
Date:13.05.2015
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 17.07.2014 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2015/20]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2870821
Date:16.09.2020
Language:EN
[2020/38]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:JP17.07.2014
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP09.02.2016
ClassificationIPC:H04W84/04, H04W24/10
[2019/45]
CPC:
H04W24/10 (EP,GB,US); H04W84/047 (EP,US)
Former IPC [2015/20]H04W88/04, H04W36/30
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 [2015/20]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
TitleGerman:Mobiles Benutzerendgerät und Verfahren zum Betrieb einer Relaiszelle[2019/43]
English:Mobile user equipment apparatus and method for operating a relay cell[2019/43]
French:Équipement d'utilisateur mobile et procédé de fonctionnement de cellule de relais[2019/43]
Former [2015/20]KOMMUNIKATIONSSYSTEM
Former [2015/20]COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Former [2015/20]SYSTÈME DE COMMUNICATION
Entry into regional phase06.02.2015National basic fee paid 
06.02.2015Search fee paid 
06.02.2015Designation fee(s) paid 
06.02.2015Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure06.02.2015Examination requested  [2015/20]
07.09.2016Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
30.03.2017Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.07.2017Reply to a communication from the examining division
10.10.2017Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
31.01.2018Reply to a communication from the examining division
06.06.2018Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
16.10.2018Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.01.2019Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
22.05.2019Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.10.2019Communication of intention to grant the patent
28.02.2020Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
08.04.2020Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.08.2020Fee for grant paid
07.08.2020Fee for publishing/printing paid
07.08.2020Receipt 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  30.03.2017
Opposition(s)17.06.2021No opposition filed within time limit [2021/34]
Fees paidRenewal fee
27.11.2015Renewal fee patent year 03
24.11.2016Renewal fee patent year 04
13.11.2017Renewal fee patent year 05
14.11.2018Renewal fee patent year 06
14.11.2019Renewal fee patent year 07
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 [I]WO2011094644  (QUALCOMM INC [US], et al) [I] 1-15 * paragraph [0028] * * paragraph [0066] *;
 [A]WO2012158085  (ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M [SE], et al) [A] 1-15 * abstract *
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