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EP0456491 - A distributed database management system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.11.1996
Database last updated on 15.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip22.11.1996No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 08.01.1997 [1997/02]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa-ken 210-8572 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1995/01]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210, Tokyo / JP
Former [1991/46]For all designated states
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Morimoto, Yojiro, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura
Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP
02 / Sekiguchi, Koichi, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura
Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP
03 / Muranaga, Miho, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura
Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP
04 / Kato, Nobuhiro, c/o Intellectual Property Div.
Toshiba Corporation, 1-1-1 Shibaura
Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP
[1991/46]
Representative(s)BATCHELLOR, KIRK & CO.
102-108 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5SA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/46]BATCHELLOR, KIRK & CO.
2 Pear Tree Court Farringdon Road
London EC1R 0DS / GB
Application number, filing date91304177.809.05.1991
[1991/46]
Priority number, dateJP1990011855310.05.1990         Original published format: JP 11855390
[1991/46]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0456491
Date:13.11.1991
Language:EN
[1991/46]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0456491
Date:12.08.1992
Language:EN
[1992/33]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0456491
Date:17.01.1996
Language:EN
[1996/03]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP23.06.1992
ClassificationIPC:G06F17/30
[1996/03]
CPC:
G06F16/27 (EP,US); G06F16/275 (US); G06F16/24542 (EP,US);
Y10S707/922 (US); Y10S707/966 (US); Y10S707/99932 (US);
Y10S707/99939 (US) (-)
Former IPC [1991/46]G06F15/40
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1991/46]
TitleGerman:Verteiltes Datenbankverarbeitungssystem[1991/46]
English:A distributed database management system[1991/46]
French:Système de base de données distribué[1991/46]
Examination procedure03.06.1991Examination requested  [1991/46]
03.08.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
05.12.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
16.03.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
02.05.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
01.06.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
24.07.1995Communication of intention to grant the patent
23.10.1995Fee for grant paid
23.10.1995Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)18.10.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1997/02]
Fees paidRenewal fee
10.05.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
09.05.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
12.04.1995Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipDE18.04.1996
[1996/44]
Documents cited:Search[A]GB1083375  (IBM);
 [A]US4769772  (DWYER PATRICIA A [US])
 [A]  - PROC. OF THE 5TH INT. CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS 13 May 1985, DENVER, US pages 282 - 291; M.J. CAREY ET AL.: 'Dynamic task allocation in a distributed database system'
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