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EP0490685
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0490685 - A rotary encoder [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Opposition rejected Status updated on 20.12.2001 Database last updated on 24.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 05.10.2005 | Change: Appeal number | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Xerox Corporation Xerox Square - 020 Rochester New York 14644 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1992/25] | For all designated states XEROX CORPORATION Xerox Square - 020 Rochester New York 14644 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Dejong, Joannes N.M. 5 Robin Hood Road Suffern, New York 10901 / US | 02 /
Ricciardelli, John J. 7 Four Winds Drive Poughkepsie, New York 12603 / US | 03 /
Lean, Meng H. 353 Sleepy Hollow Road Briarcliff Manor, New York 10510 / US | 04 /
Schweid, Stuart A. 82 Blackwell Lane Henrietta, New York 14467 / US | 05 /
Wolf, Barry 1273 Pickens Court Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 / US | 06 /
Lofthus, Robert M. 74 Mouroe Street Honcoye Falls, New York 14472 / US | [1992/25] | Representative(s) | Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstrasse 4 80802 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/48] | Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Maximilianstrasse 58 80538 München / DE | ||
| Former [1992/25] | Johnson, Reginald George, et al Rank Xerox Ltd Patent Department Parkway Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 1YL / GB | Application number, filing date | 91311577.0 | 12.12.1991 | [1992/25] | Priority number, date | US19900627207 | 13.12.1990 Original published format: US 627207 | [1992/25] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0490685 | Date: | 17.06.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/25] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0490685 | Date: | 14.12.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/50] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0490685 | Date: | 11.09.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/37] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.10.1994 | Classification | IPC: | H03M1/24, H03M1/64, G01D5/244 | [1994/50] | CPC: |
G01D5/2451 (EP,US);
H03M1/645 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1992/25] | H03M1/24 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1992/25] | Title | German: | Winkelkodierer | [1992/25] | English: | A rotary encoder | [1992/25] | French: | Codeur rotatif | [1992/25] | Examination procedure | 14.06.1995 | Examination requested [1995/33] | 16.11.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.03.1996 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 28.06.1996 | Fee for grant paid | 28.06.1996 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
10.06.1997
24.06.1997
ADMISSIBLE DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH Dr.-Johannes-Heidenhain-Str. 5 D-83301 Traunreut / DE | [1997/33] | 29.07.1997 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 05.02.1998 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 09.04.1999 | Date of oral proceedings | 05.05.1999 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 05.05.1999 | Date of despatch of rejection of opposition | 13.11.2001 | Legal effect of rejection of opposition [2002/06] | Appeal following opposition | 01.06.1999 | Appeal received No. T0609/99 | 01.06.1999 | Statement of grounds filed | 13.11.2001 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the opponent was rejected | 13.11.2001 | Date of oral proceedings | 16.11.2001 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.09.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 02.01.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [A] WINTER: "A magnetically coupled low-cost high-speed shaft position digitizer", PROCEEDINGS OF THE WESTERN COMPUTER CONFERENCE, LOS ANGELES, CA, 4-6 FEBRUARY 1953, NEW YORK, A.I.E.E.; US, pages 203 - 207 [A] 7,8 * page 204, paragraph 5 - page 205, line 2; figures 5,6 * |