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EP4369673 - USER EQUIPMENT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusExamination is in progress
Status updated on  12.02.2026
Database last updated on 28.03.2026
FormerRequest for examination was made
Status updated on  12.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip13.02.2026First examination report 
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NTT DOCOMO, INC.
11-1, Nagatacho 2-chome
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-6150 / JP
[2024/20]
Inventor(s)01 / Saito, Keisuke
Tokyo, 100-6150 / JP
02 / Takeda, Kazuaki
Tokyo, 100-6150 / JP
03 / Nagata, Satoshi
Tokyo, 100-6150 / JP
04 / Kakishima, Yuichi
Palo Alto, California, 94304 / US
 [2024/20]
Representative(s)Hoffmann Eitle
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartmbB
Arabellastraße 30
81925 München / DE
[2024/20]
Application number, filing date24165817.810.08.2017
[2024/20]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP4369673
Date:15.05.2024
Language:EN
[2024/20]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP4369673
Date:31.07.2024
Language:EN
[2024/31]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP28.06.2024
ClassificationIPC:H04L5/00, H04L27/26
[2024/31]
CPC:
H04L5/0048 (EP,US); H04B7/0413 (EP); H04L27/261 (EP);
H04L27/2675 (EP); H04L27/266 (EP)
Former IPC [2024/20]H04L27/26
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 [2024/20]
TitleGerman:BENUTZERENDGERÄT UND FUNKKOMMUNIKATIONSVERFAHREN[2024/20]
English:USER EQUIPMENT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD[2024/20]
French:TERMINAL UTILISATEUR ET PROCÉDÉ DE COMMUNICATION RADIO[2024/20]
Examination procedure25.03.2024Examination requested  [2024/20]
27.01.2025Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
27.01.2025Date on which the examining division has become responsible
11.02.2026Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP17921173.5  / EP3668031
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Documents cited:Search[I] EP3570473  (LG ELECTRONICS INC et al.)
 [A] WO2018125910  (INTEL IP CORP et al.)
 [I]   LG ELECTRONICS: "On DL PT-RS design", vol. RAN WG1, no. Qingdao, P.R. China; 20170627 - 20170630, 17 June 2017 (2017-06-17), XP051304927, Retrieved from the Internet [retrieved on 20170617]
 [A]   INTEL HUAWEI HISILICON NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS MEDIATEK [LGE]: "Way Forward on PTRS", vol. RAN WG1, no. Qingdao, China; 20170627 - 20170630, 1 July 2017 (2017-07-01), XP051306166, Retrieved from the Internet [retrieved on 20170701]
by applicant  "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2 (Release 13", 3GPP TS 36.300, June 2016 (2016-06-01)
   QUALCOMMERICSSONPANASONICNTT DOCOMOZTECONVIDANOKIAASBSONYINTEL, WAY FORWARD ON FRAME STRUCTURE, May 2016 (2016-05-01)
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