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EP About this file: EP0338858

EP0338858 - Optical disk apparatus with shortened access time and rotated method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  29.03.1995
Database last updated on 22.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip29.03.1995Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 17.05.1995 [1995/20]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa-ken 210-8572 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1989/43]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210, Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yokota, Tsuneshi c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 1-1 Shibaura 1-Chome
Minato-ku Tokyo 105 / JP
[1989/43]
Representative(s)Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
Marks & Clerk Incorporating Edward Evans Barker 90 Long Acre
London WC2E 9RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/52]Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS / GB
Former [1989/43]Sturt, Clifford Mark
MARKS & CLERK 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS / GB
Application number, filing date89304007.121.04.1989
[1989/43]
Priority number, dateJP1988009951822.04.1988         Original published format: JP 9951888
[1989/43]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0338858
Date:25.10.1989
Language:EN
[1989/43]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0338858
Date:03.10.1990
Language:EN
[1990/40]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP13.08.1990
ClassificationIPC:G11B7/085
[1990/46]
CPC:
G11B7/08529 (EP,US); G11B7/08541 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1989/43]G11B7/08
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   NL [1989/43]
TitleGerman:Gerät für optische Scheibe mit verkürzter Zugangszeit und rotierter Methode[1989/43]
English:Optical disk apparatus with shortened access time and rotated method[1989/43]
French:Appareil de disque optique avec temps d'accès raccourci et méthode tournée[1989/43]
File destroyed:03.03.2001
Examination procedure12.05.1989Examination requested  [1989/43]
05.10.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
01.04.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
20.08.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
10.01.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.07.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
26.11.1994Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [1995/20]
23.12.1994Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time  [1995/20]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.04.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
10.04.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
13.04.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
11.04.1994Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[Y]GB2000612  (THOMSON BRANDT);
 [Y]DE3626029  (OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO [JP]);
 [A]EP0227044  (TOSHIBA KK [JP]);
 [A]US4481613  (YOKOTA TSUNESHI [JP]);
 [XP]EP0270357  (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP [JP])
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