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EP0168981
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| EP0168981 - Method and apparatus for spherical panning [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 27.08.1994 Database last updated on 24.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states TEKTRONIX, INC. Tektronix Industrial Park D/S Y3-121 4900 S.W. Griffith Drive P.O. Box 500 Beaverton Oregon 97077 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/04] | For all designated states TEKTRONIX, INC. Tektronix Industrial Park D/S Y3-121 4900 S.W. Griffith Drive P.O. Box 500 Beaverton Oregon 97077 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Waller, William G. 4202 S.W. Lee Portland Oregon 97221 / US | [1986/04] | Representative(s) | Wombwell, Francis, et al Forresters 15, Hamilton Square Birkenhead Merseyside CH41 6BR / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/04] | Wombwell, Francis, et al Potts, Kerr & Co. 15, Hamilton Square Birkenhead Merseyside L41 6BR / GB | Application number, filing date | 85304378.4 | 19.06.1985 | [1986/04] | Priority number, date | US19840633156 | 20.07.1984 Original published format: US 633156 | [1986/04] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0168981 | Date: | 22.01.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/04] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0168981 | Date: | 15.03.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/11] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0168981 | Date: | 27.10.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/43] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.01.1989 | Classification | IPC: | G06F15/72 | [1986/04] | CPC: |
G06T15/20 (EP);
G06F3/153 (KR);
G06F3/04845 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [1986/04] | Title | German: | Sphärisches Schwenkungsverfahren und -gerät | [1993/43] | English: | Method and apparatus for spherical panning | [1986/04] | French: | Méthode et appareil pour la visualisation d'un panorama sphérique | [1986/04] |
| Former [1986/04] | Kugelschwenkungsverfahren und -gerät | Examination procedure | 26.08.1989 | Examination requested [1989/43] | 05.11.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.02.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.08.1992 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 26.11.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.04.1993 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 30.04.1993 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.06.1993 | Fee for grant paid | 22.06.1993 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.07.1994 | No opposition filed within time limit [1994/42] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.05.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 17.05.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.05.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.05.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 15.05.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 18.05.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 14.05.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | FR | 27.10.1993 | NL | 27.10.1993 | [2006/14] |
| Former [1995/03] | NL | 27.10.1993 | |
| FR | 18.03.1994 | ||
| Former [1994/39] | NL | 27.10.1993 | Documents cited: | Search | [E]EP0172920 (FANUC LTD [JP]) | [A] - OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 20, no. 6 November - December 1981, pages 912-921, Bellingham, Washington, US; R.N. DEVICH et al.: "Image perspective transformations-urban scenes" | [A] - NTIS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY ALERT SOUTH AFRICA, 19th March 1981; "Computer aided perspective drawing" |