EP0810599 - Improvements in signal encode/decode systems [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 01.10.2004 Database last updated on 17.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 11.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 13.02.2008 [2008/07] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states PACIFIC MICROSONICS, INC. 2550 9th Street, Suite 209A Berkeley, CA 94710 / US | [1997/49] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Johnson, Keith O. 550 Brighton Road Pacific, CA 94044 / US | 02 /
Pflaumer, Michael W. 3051 Buena Vista Way Berkeley, CA 94708 / US | [1997/49] | Representative(s) | Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB Leopoldstraße 4 80802 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2001/46] | Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser Anwaltssozietät Maximilianstrasse 58 80538 München / DE | ||
Former [1997/49] | Baillie, Iain Cameron Ladas & Parry, Altheimer Eck 2 80331 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 97111671.0 | 28.05.1992 | [1997/49] | Priority number, date | US19910707073 | 29.05.1991 Original published format: US 707073 | [1997/49] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0810599 | Date: | 03.12.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/49] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0810599 | Date: | 08.04.1998 | [1998/15] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0810599 | Date: | 26.11.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/48] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.02.1998 | Classification | IPC: | G11B20/10 | [1997/49] | CPC: |
G11B20/10527 (EP,US);
G06J1/00 (EP,US);
H03M5/04 (EP,US);
H04B14/046 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, SE [1997/49] | Title | German: | Verbesserungen in Codierung-/Decodierungssystemen | [1997/49] | English: | Improvements in signal encode/decode systems | [1997/49] | French: | Améliorations dans des systèmes de codage/décodage | [1997/49] | Examination procedure | 19.08.1997 | Examination requested [1997/49] | 21.08.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 28.02.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.05.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 30.09.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 30.09.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP92913072.2 / EP0586565 | Opposition(s) | 27.08.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/47] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 04.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 04.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 04.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 04.08.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 23.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 08.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 26.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 20.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 14.05.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 13.05.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 12 |
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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 | 26.11.2003 | BE | 26.11.2003 | CH | 26.11.2003 | IT | 26.11.2003 | LI | 26.11.2003 | NL | 26.11.2003 | DK | 26.02.2004 | GR | 26.02.2004 | SE | 26.02.2004 | ES | 09.03.2004 | LU | 28.05.2004 | MC | 31.05.2004 | [2008/07] |
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LU | 28.05.2004 | ||
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Former [2004/24] | SE | 26.02.2004 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4472747 (SCHWARTZ DAVID M [US]) [A] 1,6* column W *; | [A]EP0255111 (HITACHI LTD [JP], et al) [A] 1,6 * page 55, line 9 - line 52 *; | [A]US4831464 (CHIJIIWA MASARU [JP]) [A] 1,6 * column W *; | [A]US4849957 (SUZUKI HIROSHI [JP]) [A] 1,6 * column W *; | [A]EP0349664 (DONNELLEY & SONS CO [US]) [A] 1,6 * column 4, line 45 - column 11, line 36; figure 1 *; | [A]US4908722 (SONOBE YOSHIAKI [JP]) [A] 1,6 * column 5, line 39 - column 7, line 21 *; | [A]EP0379613 (DOLBY LAB LICENSING CORP [US], et al) [A] 1,6 * column 8, line 1 - column 11, line 43 * |