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EP0641140 - Method of operating a digital communications network with several switches [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.09.2004 Database last updated on 22.05.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	28.12.2007	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT	published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Tenovis GmbH & Co. KG Kleyerstrasse 94 60362 Frankfurt am Main / DE
	[2003/44]
Former [2000/39]	For all designated states Tenovis GmbH & Co. KG Kleyerstrasse 94 60362 Frankfurt / DE
Former [1996/18]	For all designated states ROBERT BOSCH GMBH Postfach 30 02 20 D-70442 Stuttgart / DE
Former [1995/09]	For all designated states TELENORMA GMBH Kleyerstrasse 94 D-60326 Frankfurt am Main / DE
Inventor(s)	01 / Gärtner, Peter Hirsestrasse 4 D-47269 Duisburg / DE
	02 / Loch, Wolfgang Peschkenstrasse 3 D-47506 Neukirchen-Vluyn / DE
	03 / Sieben, Thomas Vennhauser Allee 34 D-40229 Düsseldorf / DE
	[1995/09]
Application number, filing date	94112401.8	09.08.1994
	[1995/09]
Priority number, date	DE19934329056	28.08.1993 Original published format: DE 4329056
	[1995/09]
Filing language	DE
Procedural language	DE
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0641140
	Date:	01.03.1995
	Language:	DE
	[1995/09]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0641140
	Date:	28.01.1998
	[1998/05]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0641140
	Date:	29.10.2003
	Language:	DE
	[2003/44]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	11.03.1998
Classification	IPC:	H04Q11/04, H04M11/06, H04Q3/62	[1995/09]
	CPC:	H04Q3/62 (EP); H04Q11/0428 (EP); H04Q2213/13107 (EP); H04Q2213/1316 (EP); H04Q2213/13209 (EP); H04Q2213/13216 (EP); (+) H04Q2213/1322 (EP); H04Q2213/1336 (EP); H04Q2213/13384 (EP); H04Q2213/13396 (EP) (-)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL, SE [1995/09]
Title	German:	Verfahren zum Betrieb eines aus mehreren Vermittlungen bestehenden digitalen Kommunikationsnetzes	[1995/09]
	English:	Method of operating a digital communications network with several switches	[1995/09]
	French:	Méthode d'opération d'un réseau de communication avec plusieurs commutateurs	[1995/09]
Examination procedure	28.07.1998	Examination requested [1998/39]
	08.04.2003	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	08.08.2003	Fee for grant paid
	08.08.2003	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	30.07.2004	No opposition filed within time limit [2004/43]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	02.09.1996	Renewal fee patent year 03
	01.09.1997	Renewal fee patent year 04
	31.08.1998	Renewal fee patent year 05
	31.08.1999	Renewal fee patent year 06
	31.08.2000	Renewal fee patent year 07
	24.07.2001	Renewal fee patent year 08
	26.08.2002	Renewal fee patent year 09
	28.08.2003	Renewal fee patent year 10
	Penalty fee
	Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973
	17.10.1994	AT M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	BE M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	CH M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	ES M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	FR M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	GB M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	IT M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	LI M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	NL M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
	17.10.1994	SE M01 Fee paid on 28.10.1994
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	GB	29.10.2003
	IT	29.10.2003
	NL	29.10.2003
	SE	29.01.2004
	ES	09.02.2004
	[2008/05]
Former [2004/46]	GB	29.10.2003
	NL	29.10.2003
	SE	29.01.2004
	ES	09.02.2004
Former [2004/45]	GB	29.10.2003
	NL	29.10.2003
	SE	29.01.2004
Former [2004/33]	NL	29.10.2003
	SE	29.01.2004
Former [2004/24]	SE	29.01.2004
Documents cited:	Search	[DA]DE3526708 (SIEMENS AG [DE]) [DA] 1,6-9 * the whole document *;
		[A]EP0493913 (AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH [US]) [A] 1 * abstract * * column 2, line 56 - column 3, line 45 * * figures 1,3,4,6 *;
		[DA]DE4225240 (SIEMENS AG [DE]) [DA] 1 * the whole document *;
		[A] - KORPI M ET AL, "GLOBAL VERNETZT MIT CORNET - D-KANAL-PROTOKOLL BASIERT AUF NATIONALEN UND INTERNATIONALEN NORMEN", TELCOM REPORT, (19921101), vol. 15, no. 6, pages 284 - 287, XP000343333 [A] 1 * page 286, column L, lines 11-33 * * figure 1 *
		[A] - BROEKHUIZEN J M, "DPNSS1 IN SOPHO-S", PHILIPS TELECOMMUNICATION & DATA SYSTEMS REVIEW, (19870901), vol. 45, no. 3, pages 28 - 34, XP002046618 [A] 1-5 * pages 29-31, paragraph 2 * * figure 1 *

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