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EP About this file: EP0626646

EP0626646 - File management method for interchangeable storage media [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  18.04.2003
Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.02.2006Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
Updated state(s): FR
published on 05.04.2006  [2006/14]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
FUJITSU LIMITED
1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi
Kanagawa 211 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1994/48]For all designated states
FUJITSU LIMITED
1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Nakashima, Kazuo, c/o FUJITSU LIMITED
1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211 / JP
02 / Utsumi, Kenichi, c/o FUJITSU LIMITED
1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku
Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211 / JP
[1994/48]
Representative(s)Seeger, Wolfgang
Seeger & Seeger
Patentanwälte & European Patent Attorneys
Georg-Hager-Strasse 40
81369 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1994/48]Seeger, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Phys.
SEEGER & SEEGER Patentanwälte & European Patent Attorneys Georg-Hager-Strasse 40
D-81369 München / DE
Application number, filing date94104111.316.03.1994
[1994/48]
Priority number, dateJP1993012257225.05.1993         Original published format: JP 12257293
[1994/48]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0626646
Date:30.11.1994
Language:EN
[1994/48]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0626646
Date:12.06.2002
Language:EN
[2002/24]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP03.06.1994
ClassificationIPC:G06F12/02, G11B20/12
[1994/48]
CPC:
G11B27/329 (EP,US); G06F3/0601 (EP,US); G06F3/0607 (EP,US);
G06F3/0643 (EP,US); G06F3/0677 (EP,US); G11B11/10597 (EP,US);
G11B27/3027 (EP,US); G06F2003/0697 (EP,US); G11B2020/1259 (EP,US);
G11B2220/211 (EP,US); G11B2220/2525 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1994/48]
TitleGerman:Verfahren zur Dateiverwaltung von austauschbaren Datenträgern[1994/48]
English:File management method for interchangeable storage media[1994/48]
French:Procédé de gestion de fichiers de données des supports de données interchangeables[1994/48]
Examination procedure26.05.1995Examination requested  [1995/30]
10.05.2000Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
16.11.2000Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.06.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
18.09.2001Communication of intention to grant the patent
27.11.2001Fee for grant paid
27.11.2001Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)13.03.2003No opposition filed within time limit [2003/23]
Fees paidRenewal fee
21.03.1996Renewal fee patent year 03
23.03.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
18.03.1998Renewal fee patent year 05
22.03.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
18.03.2000Renewal fee patent year 07
21.03.2001Renewal fee patent year 08
16.03.2002Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR12.06.2002
[2006/14]
Former [2003/47]FR24.01.2003
Documents cited:Search[Y]EP0461668  (SONY CORP [JP]) [Y] 1,3,5;
 [Y]EP0487064  (NEC CORP [JP]) [Y] 1,3,5;
 [A]EP0528421  (SONY CORP [JP])[A] 1,3,5
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