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EP0020980 - Segmented-display device [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  07.02.1986
Database last updated on 28.03.2026
Most recent event   Tooltip07.02.1986No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 26.03.1986 [1986/13]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
International Business Machines Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504 / US
[N/P]
Former [1981/01]For all designated states
International Business Machines Corporation
Old Orchard Road
Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Lantz, Robert Howard
9511 Meadowheath
Round Rock Texas 78664 / US
02 / Schwartz, Alfred Alexander
Route 1 Box 575
Leander Texas 78641 / US
[1981/01]
Representative(s)Vekemans, André
Compagnie IBM France Département de Propriété Intellectuelle
F-06610 La Gaude / FR
[1981/01]
Application number, filing date80102574.309.05.1980
[1981/01]
Priority number, dateUS1979005205425.06.1979         Original published format: US 52054
[1981/01]
Filing languageFR
Procedural languageFR
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0020980
Date:07.01.1981
Language:FR
[1981/01]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0020980
Date:17.03.1982
Language:FR
[1982/11]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0020980
Date:03.04.1985
Language:FR
[1985/14]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP14.01.1982
ClassificationIPC:G09G1/10
[1981/01]
CPC:
G09G1/10 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1981/01]
TitleGerman:Vorrichtung zur Anzeige durch Segmente[1981/01]
English:Segmented-display device[1981/01]
French:Dispositif d'affichage par segments[1981/01]
File destroyed:12.06.1999
Examination procedure28.08.1981Examination requested  [1981/45]
19.07.1983Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
19.09.1983Reply to a communication from the examining division
30.05.1984Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: )
22.08.1984Communication of intention to grant the patent
05.09.1984Fee for grant paid
05.09.1984Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)04.01.1986No opposition filed within time limit [1986/13]
Fees paidRenewal fee
13.05.1982Renewal fee patent year 03
19.05.1983Renewal fee patent year 04
23.05.1984Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[A]   IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 15, no. 9, fvrier 1973, New York, (US) P.F. NEE: "Compaction of Vector Data for Display Devices", page 2966 [A]
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