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EP0169703
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| EP0169703 - A method of functional analysis [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent revoked Status updated on 05.12.1997 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Georges, Bradford John Newbridge House School Road Upwell Norfolk / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1986/05] | For all designated states Georges, Bradford John Newbridge House School Road Upwell Norfolk / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
see applicant ... | [1986/05] | Representative(s) | Paget, Hugh Charles Edward, et al Mewburn Ellis LLP City Tower 40 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5DE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/21] | Paget, Hugh Charles Edward, et al MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | ||
| Former [1986/05] | Ellis, Edward Lovell MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway London WC2B 6HP / GB | Application number, filing date | 85305087.0 | 17.07.1985 | [1986/05] | Priority number, date | GB19840018504 | 20.07.1984 Original published format: GB 8418504 | [1986/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0169703 | Date: | 29.01.1986 | Language: | EN | [1986/05] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0169703 | Date: | 07.12.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/49] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0169703 | Date: | 26.09.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/39] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.10.1988 | Classification | IPC: | G06F15/21, G06F15/353, G06F15/36 | [1988/47] | CPC: |
G06F17/17 (EP);
G06F17/18 (EP)
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| Former IPC [1986/05] | G06F15/21 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, FR, GB, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1986/05] | Title | German: | Verfahren zur Funktionsanalyse | [1986/05] | English: | A method of functional analysis | [1986/05] | French: | Méthode d'analyse fonctionnelle | [1986/05] | Examination procedure | 16.03.1989 | Examination requested [1989/21] | 16.03.1989 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 21.06.1989 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 21.06.1989 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 08.07.1989 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.02.1990 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 21.03.1990 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.06.1990 | Fee for grant paid | 07.06.1990 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
26.06.1991
30.08.1991
ADMISSIBLE Robert Pettit The Bays, Symonds Lane Linton, Cambridgeshire CB1 6HY / GB Opponent's representative Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1991/42] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
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Robert Pettit The Bays, Symonds Lane Linton, Cambridgeshire CB1 6HY / GB Opponent's representative Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | ||
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| Opponent(s) | 01
26.06.1991
Robert Pettit The Bays, Symonds Lane Linton, Cambridgeshire CB1 6HY / GB | 05.09.1991 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 04.03.1992 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 27.07.1992 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 26.11.1992 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 15.07.1993 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M06) | 24.01.1994 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 27.11.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M06) | 03.06.1997 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 21.07.1997 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 31.07.1997 | Legal effect of revocation of patent [1998/04] | Appeal following opposition | 06.12.1994 | Appeal received No. T0953/94 | 09.02.1995 | Statement of grounds filed | 15.07.1996 | Result of appeal procedure: continuation of opposition procedure | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.07.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.08.1988 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.07.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 25.07.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 01.08.1988 | 04 M06 Fee paid on 19.08.1988 |
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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 | LU | 17.07.1997 | [2004/39] |
| Former [2000/52] | CH | 26.09.1990 | |
| LI | 26.09.1990 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JP5934165 | [A] - REGELUNGSTECHNIK UND PROZESS-DATENVERARBEITUNG, vol. 22, no. 2, 1974, pages 42-49, Munich, DE; V.H. NIEMANN: "Zur linearen und nichtlinearen extrapolation diskreter Zeitfunktionen" | [A] - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER APPARTUS AND SYSTEMS, vol. PAS-103, no. 5, May 1984, pages 1070-1076, IEEE, New York, US; H.L. WILLIS et al.: "Load transfer coupling regression curve fitting for distribution load forecasting" | [A] - ELEKTOR, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1979, pages 2-06 - 2-09, Canterbury, GB; L. GÜSE: "Pools predictor 1, 2 or X based on statistics" | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 8, no. 133 (P-281)[1570], 20th June 1984; & JP-A-59 34 165 (FUJITSU K.K.) 24-02-1984, & JP5934165 A 00000000 |