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EP About this file: EP0733980

EP0733980 - Shared RAM access arrangement [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.08.2002
Database last updated on 30.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip04.01.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 06.02.2008  [2008/06]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1996/39]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Ip, Tony K.
19285 Jasper Hill Road
Trabuco Canyon, California 92679 / US
[1996/39]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1996/39]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date96301993.022.03.1996
[1996/39]
Priority number, dateUS1995040903523.03.1995         Original published format: US 409035
[1996/39]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0733980
Date:25.09.1996
Language:EN
[1996/39]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0733980
Date:04.10.2001
Language:EN
[2001/40]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP16.07.1996
ClassificationIPC:G06F13/16
[1996/39]
CPC:
G06F13/1673 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1996/39]
TitleGerman:Zugriffsvorrichtung für gemeinsamen Speicher[1996/39]
English:Shared RAM access arrangement[1996/39]
French:Dispositif d'accès à une mémoire vive partagée[1996/39]
Examination procedure05.02.1997Examination requested  [1997/14]
22.07.1999Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
28.04.2000Reply to a communication from the examining division
23.10.2000Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
02.03.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
03.04.2001Communication of intention to grant the patent
08.06.2001Fee for grant paid
08.06.2001Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)05.07.2002No opposition filed within time limit [2002/39]
Request for further processing for:28.04.2000Request for further processing filed
28.04.2000Full payment received (date of receipt of payment)
Request granted
22.05.2000Decision despatched
Fees paidRenewal fee
18.03.1998Renewal fee patent year 03
19.03.1999Renewal fee patent year 04
20.03.2000Renewal fee patent year 05
21.03.2001Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR04.10.2001
IT04.10.2001
[2008/06]
Former [2004/34]FR04.10.2001
Documents cited:Search[YA]US5369748  (MCFARLAND HAROLD L [US], et al) [Y] 1-10 * column 2, line 66 - column 4, line 52; figures 1,2 * [A] 11-17;
 [A]EP0580961  (IBM [US]) [A] 1,3,7,9 * page 2, line 50 - page 3, line 37; figures 3,6 *
 [YA]  - WOOD, "The Design of a Bus Access Controller Using a PLD", ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, LONDON GB, (199204), vol. 64, no. 784, pages 47 - 53, XP000291116 [Y] 1-10 * page 47, column L, paragraph 1 - page 51, column L, paragraph 3; figures 1,2 * [A] 11-17
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