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EP0636997
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0636997
| EP0636997 - Spatial light modulation [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 30.03.2001 Database last updated on 05.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Texas Instruments Incorporated 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75265 / US | For all designated states Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/21] | For all designated states TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas Texas 75265 / US | ||
| For all designated states AGFA-GEVAERT N.V. Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | |||
| Former [1996/39] | For all designated states TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas Texas 75265 / US | ||
| For all designated states AGFA-GEVAERT naamloze vennootschap Septestraat 27 B-2640 Mortsel / BE | |||
| Former [1995/05] | For all designated states TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED 13500 North Central Expressway Dallas Texas 75265 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Venkateswar, Vadlamannati 7825 McCallum Blvd Apt.No. 1203 Dallas TX 75252 / US | 02 /
Nelson, William E 4306 Bordeaux Dallas TX 75205 / US | [1995/05] | Representative(s) | Schwepfinger, Karl-Heinz Prinz & Partner GbR Manzingerweg 7 81241 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/05] | Schwepfinger, Karl-Heinz, Dipl.-Ing. Prinz & Partner, Manzingerweg 7 D-81241 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 94111877.0 | 29.07.1994 | [1995/05] | Priority number, date | US19930100892 | 30.07.1993 Original published format: US 100892 | [1995/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0636997 | Date: | 01.02.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/05] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0636997 | Date: | 19.11.1997 | [1997/47] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0636997 | Date: | 24.05.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/21] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 06.10.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G06K15/12 | [1995/05] | CPC: |
G06K15/1252 (EP,KR,US);
B41J2/435 (KR);
G03G15/04 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [1995/05] | Title | German: | Räumliche Lichtmodulation | [1995/05] | English: | Spatial light modulation | [1995/05] | French: | Modulation spatiale de lumière | [1995/05] | Examination procedure | 01.04.1998 | Examination requested [1998/23] | 19.10.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 28.04.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.06.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 19.10.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.03.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time | 16.03.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 16.03.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 27.02.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/20] | Request for further processing for: | 16.03.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 16.03.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 30.03.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.07.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 24.07.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 27.07.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 28.07.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 24.05.2000 | [2008/05] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US5028939 (HORNBECK LARRY J [US], et al) [X] 1-3,5,7-12,15 * figures 2A,2C,2F,3B * * figures 6B,7A-C,14A * * column 11, line 67 - column 13, line 29 *; | [A]EP0437766 (TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC [US]) [A] 1-4,7-12,15 * figures 9A,9B,9C * * abstract ** page 9, line 35 - page 10, line 41 * |