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EP About this file: EP0360414

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StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  18.01.1994
Database last updated on 09.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip18.01.1994Refusal of applicationpublished on 09.03.1994 [1994/10]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
ACER INCORPORATED
602 Min Sheng East Road
Taipei 10445 / TW
[1990/13]
Inventor(s)01 / Wu, Dennis Tse Shuan
No. 265, Yun An Road Mei Lung Town
Kau Shun Hsien / TW
[1990/13]
Representative(s)Skone James, Robert Edmund, et al
Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/13]Skone James, Robert Edmund, et al
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date89308394.918.08.1989
[1990/13]
Priority number, dateGB1988002023525.08.1988         Original published format: GB 8820235
GB1988002501326.10.1988         Original published format: GB 8825013
[1990/13]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0360414
Date:28.03.1990
Language:EN
[1990/13]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP11.01.1990
ClassificationIPC:H03M11/00
[1990/13]
CPC:
H03M11/003 (EP)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB [1990/13]
TitleGerman:Tastatur[1990/13]
English:Keyboard[1990/13]
French:Clavier[1990/13]
File destroyed:15.01.2000
Examination procedure21.09.1990Examination requested  [1990/46]
03.09.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
28.12.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.03.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
29.03.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
08.10.1993Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [1994/10]
18.10.1993Application refused, date of legal effect [1994/10]
Fees paidRenewal fee
08.08.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
10.08.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
11.08.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[YD]DE3640432  ;
 [A]FR2605763
 [Y]  - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 27, no. 4A, September 1984, page 1997, New York, US; P.M. BLAND et al.: "N-key column rollover when interfacing CMOS circuitry to a contact membrane or hard contact matrix keyboard"
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