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EP0827668
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| EP0827668 - IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEIVERS FOR TELEVISION SIGNALS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent maintained as amended Status updated on 30.10.2009 Database last updated on 29.03.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 25.06.2010 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 28.07.2010 [2010/30] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Grant Way Middlesex TW7 5QD / GB | [1998/11] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
TOWNSEND, Christopher, Peter British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Grant Way Isleworth Middlesex TW7 5QD / GB | 02 /
HOLLIDAY, David British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Grant Way Isleworth Middlesex TW7 5QD / GB | 03 /
CROSSLEY, Robin British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Grant Way Isleworth Middlesex TW7 5QD / GB | 04 /
WEBBER, Alun, David British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. Grant Way Issleworth Middlesex TW7 5QD / GB | [1998/11] | Representative(s) | Cross, James Peter Archibald, et al Maucher Jenkins Seventh Floor Offices Artillery House 11-19 Artillery Row London SW1P 1RT / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2009/36] | Cross, James Peter Archibald, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co. 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | ||
| Former [1998/11] | Whitten, George Alan, et al R.G.C. Jenkins & Co., 26 Caxton Street London SW1H 0RJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 96914340.3 | 22.05.1996 | [1998/11] | WO1996GB01228 | Priority number, date | GB19950010429 | 22.05.1995 Original published format: GB 9510429 | GB19950019651 | 27.09.1995 Original published format: GB 9519651 | [1998/11] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9637996 | Date: | 28.11.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/52] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0827668 | Date: | 11.03.1998 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 28.11.1996 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1998/11] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0827668 | Date: | 28.11.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/48] | Type: | B2 New European patent specification | No.: | EP0827668 | Date: | 02.12.2009 | Language: | EN | [2009/49] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 28.11.1996 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/44, H04N5/445 | [1998/11] | CPC: |
H04N7/17318 (EP,US);
H04N21/235 (EP,US);
H04N21/4181 (EP,US);
H04N21/42204 (EP,US);
H04N21/426 (EP,US);
H04N21/4312 (EP,US);
H04N21/4314 (EP,US);
H04N21/4316 (EP,US);
H04N21/4331 (EP,US);
H04N21/4345 (EP,US);
H04N21/435 (EP,US);
H04N21/44 (EP,US);
H04N21/440263 (EP,US);
H04N21/4532 (EP,US);
H04N21/4622 (EP,US);
H04N21/47 (EP,US);
H04N21/47214 (EP,US);
H04N21/4755 (EP,US);
H04N21/478 (EP,US);
H04N21/482 (EP,US);
H04N21/485 (EP,US);
H04N21/84 (EP,US);
H04N21/858 (EP,US);
H04N5/44 (EP,US);
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [1998/11] | Title | German: | VERBESSERUNGEN AN FERNSEHSIGNALEMPFÄNGERN | [1998/11] | English: | IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEIVERS FOR TELEVISION SIGNALS | [1998/11] | French: | AMELIORATIONS DES RECEPTEURS DE SIGNAUX DE TELEVISION | [1998/11] | Entry into regional phase | 22.12.1997 | National basic fee paid | 22.12.1997 | Designation fee(s) paid | 22.12.1997 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 20.12.1996 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 22.12.1997 | Examination requested [1998/11] | 02.02.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 12.08.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 31.08.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.11.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.12.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 06.06.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 29.08.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 29.08.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP00102795.2 / EP0999702 | EP00102803.4 / EP0999703 | EP00102804.2 / EP0999704 | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
27.08.2002
30.09.2002
ADMISSIBLE IGR GmbH & Co. KG. Bahnstrasse 62 40210 Düsseldorf / DE Opponent's representative Eichstädt, Alfred Maryniok GbR Patent- und Rechtsanwaltssozietät Leibnizstrasse 6 95447 Bayreuth / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [2007/08] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
27.08.2002
30.09.2002
ADMISSIBLE IGR GmbH & Co. KG. Bahnstrasse 62 40210 Düsseldorf / DE Opponent's representative Eichstädt, Alfred Maryniok & Eichstädt, Kuhbergstrasse 23 96317 Kronach / DE | ||
| Former [2002/42] | |||
| Opponent(s) | 01
27.08.2002
Interessengemeinschaft für Rundfunkschutzrechte GmbH Schutzrechtsverwertung & Co. KG Bahnstrasse 62 40210 Düsseldorf / DE Opponent's representative Eichstädt, Alfred, Dipl.-Ing. Maryniok & Eichstädt, Kuhbergstrasse 23 96317 Kronach / DE | 04.10.2002 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 13.06.2003 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 28.07.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 05.12.2003 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 28.09.2004 | Date of oral proceedings | 07.10.2004 | Despatch of interlocutory decision in opposition | 07.10.2004 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 28.08.2008 | Legal effect of interlocutory decision in opposition | 30.01.2009 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be maintained as amended | 08.05.2009 | Fee for printing new specification paid | Appeal following opposition | 26.11.2004 | Appeal received No. T1355/04 | 14.02.2005 | Statement of grounds filed | 07.11.2008 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the opponent was rejected | 28.08.2008 | Date of oral proceedings | 02.09.2008 | Minutes of the oral proceedings despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.08.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 26.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 15.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 14.05.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.05.1998 | 03 M06 Fee paid on 10.08.1998 |
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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 | AT | 28.11.2001 | [2010/30] | Cited in | International search | [X]EP0263555 (PHILIPS NV [NL]) [X] 1-3,6,7 * column 7, line 10 - column 10, line 27; figure 3 *; | [X]EP0507314 (EDICO SRL [IT]) [X] 1-3,6,7 * the whole document *; | [A]WO9414282 (DISCOVERY COMMUNICAT INC [US]); | [X]WO9501059 (APPLE COMPUTER [US]) [X] 9-20,31,36,42,44,46,47 * the whole document *; | [A]US5410326 (GOLDSTEIN STEVEN W [US]) [A] 1-8 * column 7, line 4 - column 12, line 53; figures 1-10 * | Opposition | DE2744057 | WO9107050 | - FACHZEITSCHRIFT "FUNKSCHAU", (19950105), vol. 2/95, pages 72 - 76 |