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EP About this file: EP0475640

EP0475640 - Polarization switching light source, optical receiver, and coherent optical transmission system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  21.11.1997
Database last updated on 05.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip21.11.1997No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 07.01.1998 [1998/02]
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 [1992/12]For all designated states
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku
Kawasaki-shi / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Suzuki, Nobuo, c/o Intellectual Property Division
K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome, Minato-ku
Tokyo 105 / JP
[1992/12]
Representative(s)Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
Marks & Clerk Incorporating Edward Evans Barker 90 Long Acre
London WC2E 9RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/12]Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al
MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS / GB
Application number, filing date91307937.230.08.1991
[1992/12]
Priority number, dateJP1990022653130.08.1990         Original published format: JP 22653190
[1992/12]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0475640
Date:18.03.1992
Language:EN
[1992/12]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0475640
Date:21.10.1992
Language:EN
[1992/43]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0475640
Date:08.01.1997
Language:EN
[1997/02]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP28.08.1992
ClassificationIPC:H04B10/12
[1992/12]
CPC:
H04B10/532 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR [1996/46]
Former [1992/12]DE,  FR,  GB 
TitleGerman:Lichtquelle für Polarisationsschaltung, optischer Empfänger und kohärentes optisches Übertragungssystem[1997/02]
English:Polarization switching light source, optical receiver, and coherent optical transmission system[1992/12]
French:Source optique pour la commutation de polarisation, récepteur optique et système de transmission optique cohérent[1992/12]
Former [1992/12]Lichtquelle für Polarisationsschaltung, optischer Empfänger und Kohärentes optisches Übertragungssystem
Examination procedure18.09.1991Examination requested  [1992/12]
02.02.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
24.07.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
14.05.1996Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
09.07.1996Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.10.1996Fee for grant paid
07.10.1996Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)09.10.1997No opposition filed within time limit [1998/02]
Fees paidRenewal fee
11.08.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
09.08.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
09.08.1995Renewal fee patent year 05
10.08.1996Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[A]GB2213026  (PLESSEY CO PLC [GB]);
 [A]EP0329186  (FUJITSU LTD [JP]);
 [A]EP0357799  (FUJITSU LTD [JP])
 [AD]  - ELECTRONICS LETTERS, vol. 24, no. 15, July 21, 1988 The Institution of Electrical Engineers, London I.M.I. HABBAB et al. "Phase- -insensitive zero-IF coherent optical system using phase switching", pages 974-976
 [AD]  - JOURNAL OF LIGHTWARE TECHNOLOGY, vol. 6, no. 10, October 1988, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York I.M.I. HABBAB et al. "Polarization-Switching Techniques for Coherent Optical Communications", pages 1537-1548
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