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EP0778999
European procedure
Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0778999
| EP0778999 - HIGH SPEED DIGITAL BUFFER, DRIVER OR LEVEL SHIFTER CIRCUIT [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 21.02.2003 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.02.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 09.04.2003 [2003/15] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Kaplinssky, Cecil H. 140 Melville Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 / US | [1997/25] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
see applicant ... | [1997/25] | Representative(s) | Boden, Keith McMurray, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2000/26] | Boden, Keith McMurray, et al D. Young & Co. 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | ||
| Former [1997/25] | Purvis, William Michael Cameron, et al D. Young & Co., 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB | Application number, filing date | 95928338.3 | 07.08.1995 | [1997/25] | WO1995US09993 | Priority number, date | US19940297641 | 29.08.1994 Original published format: US 297641 | [1997/25] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9607238 | Date: | 07.03.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/11] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0778999 | Date: | 18.06.1997 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 07.03.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1997/25] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0778999 | Date: | 17.04.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/16] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | US | 07.03.1996 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.10.1997 | Classification | IPC: | H03K5/153 | [1997/25] | CPC: |
H03K19/01707 (EP,US);
H03K19/0013 (EP,US);
H03K19/018521 (EP,US);
H03K5/153 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | GB [1997/25] | Title | German: | DIGITALE HOCHGESCHWINDIGKEITSPUFFER-, -TREIBER- ODER -PEGELSCHIEBERSCHALTUNG | [1997/25] | English: | HIGH SPEED DIGITAL BUFFER, DRIVER OR LEVEL SHIFTER CIRCUIT | [1997/25] | French: | CIRCUIT NUMERIQUE RAPIDE TAMPON, D'ATTAQUE ET DECALEUR DE NIVEAU | [1997/25] | Entry into regional phase | 27.02.1997 | National basic fee paid | 27.02.1997 | Search fee paid | 27.02.1997 | Designation fee(s) paid | 27.02.1997 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 13.03.1996 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: US | 27.02.1997 | Examination requested [1997/25] | 08.02.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 13.09.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 09.10.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.06.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 22.10.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.01.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 07.01.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 20.01.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/15] | Request for further processing for: | 09.10.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 10.10.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 15.11.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.08.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.08.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 11.08.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 02.08.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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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]GB2244613 (NEC CORP [JP]) [A] 1 * page 12, line 7 - line 9 * * page 13, line 12 - page 16, line 8; figure 2 *; | [A]US4975598 (BORKAR SHEKHAR [US]) [A] 1 * column 5, line 22 - line 35 * * column 6, line 24 - column 7, line 2; figure 3 *; | [AD]US5059821 (MURABAYASHI FUMIO [JP], et al) [AD] 1 * column 12, line 64 - column 15, line 8; figure 8 * | International search | [A]US4987324 (WONG ANTHONY Y [US], et al) | Examination | US4527081 |