EP0813349 - Optical transmission system [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.06.2004 Database last updated on 08.06.2024 | 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 Nortel Networks Limited 2351 Boulevard Alfred-Nobel St. Laurent, QC H4S 2A9 / CA | [N/P] |
Former [2003/41] | For all designated states Nortel Networks Limited 2351 Boulevard Alfred-Nobel St. Laurent, Quebec H4S 2A9 / CA | ||
Former [2003/31] | For all designated states Nortel Networks Limited World Trade Center of Montreal, 380 St. Antoine Street West, 8th floor Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3Y4 / CA | ||
Former [2000/39] | For all designated states Nortel Networks Limited World Trade Center of Montreal, 380 St. Antoine Street West, 8th floor Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3Y4 / CA | ||
Former [1999/28] | For all designated states NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION World Trade Center of Montreal 380 St. Antoine Street West 8th Floor Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3Y4 / CA | ||
Former [1997/51] | For all designated states NORTHERN TELECOM LIMITED World Trade Center of Montreal, 380 St. Antoine Street West, 8th Floor Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3Y4 / CA | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Roberts, Kim Byron 41 Sherrards Park Road, Welwyn Garden City Herts AL8 7DL / GB | [1997/51] | Representative(s) | Anderson, Angela Mary, et al Nortel Networks IP Law Group Harlow Laboratories London Road, Harlow Essex CM17 9NA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2003/16] | Anderson, Angela, et al Nortel Networks IP Law Group, Harlow Laboratories, London Road Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA / GB | ||
Former [2000/37] | Bewley, Ewan Stuart, et al Nortel Networks Intellectual Property Law Group London Road Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA / GB | ||
Former [1997/51] | Dennis, Mark Charles, et al Nortel Patents, London Road Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA / GB | Application number, filing date | 97304025.6 | 10.06.1997 | [1997/51] | Priority number, date | US19960662571 | 13.06.1996 Original published format: US 662571 | GB19960015285 | 20.07.1996 Original published format: GB 9615285 | [1997/51] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0813349 | Date: | 17.12.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/51] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0813349 | Date: | 11.04.2001 | [2001/15] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0813349 | Date: | 30.07.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/31] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 23.02.2001 | Classification | IPC: | H04Q11/00, H04B10/08 | [1997/51] | CPC: |
H04Q11/0005 (EP);
H04Q2011/0011 (EP);
H04Q2011/0015 (EP);
H04Q2011/0043 (EP);
H04Q2011/0049 (EP);
H04Q2011/0081 (EP);
H04Q2011/0083 (EP)
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| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [2002/01] |
Former [1997/51] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Optisches Übertragungssystem | [1997/51] | English: | Optical transmission system | [1997/51] | French: | Système de transmission optique | [1997/51] | Examination procedure | 16.11.1999 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 11.10.2001 | Examination requested [2001/49] | 29.01.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 29.01.2002 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 26.04.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 26.11.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.04.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 07.04.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 04.05.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.05.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.05.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 28.05.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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Former [2004/16] | SE | 30.10.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [YA]US4779265 (O'CONNOR MARY G [US], et al) [Y] 12 * abstract * * column 2, lines 40-64 * [A] 3-6; | [Y]EP0581459 (AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH [US]) [Y] 12 * abstract *; | [A]EP0703678 (AT & T CORP [US]) [A] 2 * abstract *; | [XA] - AKIRA HIMENO ET AL, "PHOTONIC INTER-MODULE CONNECTOR USING 8 X 8 OPTICAL SWITCHES FOR NEAR-FUTURE ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS", IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS,JP,INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS INFORMATION AND COMM. ENG. TOKYO, (19940201), vol. E77-B, no. 2, ISSN 0916-8516, pages 155 - 162, XP000447106 [X] 1,18,19 * figure 7 * * page 159, column L, lines 8-22 * [A] 2 | [A] - MOSHE KAM ET AL, "SIMPLE SUBOPTIMAL DESIGN OF BAYESIAN DISTRIBUTED DETECTION SYSTEMS", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,US,NEW YORK, IEEE, (19910611), vol. SYMP. 24, ISBN 0-7803-0050-5, pages 910 - 913, XP000370374 [A] 6 * page 910, column L, line 40 - column R, line 4 * | [A] - KAMINOW I P ET AL, "A WIDEBAND ALL0OPTICAL WDM NETWORK", IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS,IEEE INC. NEW YORK,US, (19960601), vol. 14, no. 5, ISSN 0733-8716, pages 780 - 797, XP000590715 [A] 7-9 * figures 20,21 * * page 793, column R, line 14 - page 794, column L, line 13 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/49.510903 | Examination | US5313453 |