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EP0856993 - Set top terminal for cable television delivery systems [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.06.2003 Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	15.02.2008	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT	published on 19.03.2008 [2008/12]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 7700 Wisconsin Avenue Bethesda, MD 20814-3522 / US
	[1998/32]
Inventor(s)	01 / Hendricks, John S. 8723 Persimmon Tree Road Potomac, MD 20854 / US
	02 / Bonner, Alfred E. 8300 Bradley Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20817 / US
	03 / Berkobin, Eric C. 108 Hillview Court Woodstock, GA 30188 / US
	[1998/32]
Representative(s)	Strehl Schübel-Hopf & Partner Maximilianstrasse 54 80538 München / DE
	[1998/32]
Application number, filing date	98105647.6	02.12.1993
	[1998/32]
Priority number, date	US19920991074	09.12.1992 Original published format: US 991074
	[1998/32]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0856993
	Date:	05.08.1998
	Language:	EN
	[1998/32]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0856993
	Date:	19.08.1998
	[1998/34]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0856993
	Date:	31.07.2002
	Language:	EN
	[2002/31]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	06.07.1998
Classification	IPC:	H04N7/16, H04N7/173	[1998/32]
	CPC:	H04N21/4786 (EP,US); H04N7/16 (KR); H04H20/06 (EP,US); H04H20/10 (EP,US); H04H20/42 (EP,US); H04H20/79 (EP,US); (+) H04H20/86 (EP,US); H04H60/04 (EP,US); H04H60/13 (EP,US); H04H60/39 (EP,US); H04H60/47 (EP,US); H04H60/72 (EP,US); H04N21/2181 (EP,US); H04N21/21815 (EP,US); H04N21/2187 (EP,US); H04N21/2221 (EP,US); H04N21/235 (EP,US); H04N21/23608 (EP,US); H04N21/2362 (EP,US); H04N21/2381 (EP,US); H04N21/2389 (EP,US); H04N21/252 (EP,US); H04N21/2543 (EP,US); H04N21/258 (EP,US); H04N21/25891 (EP,US); H04N21/26208 (EP,US); H04N21/26283 (EP,US); H04N21/2668 (EP,US); H04N21/4181 (EP,US); H04N21/4184 (EP,US); H04N21/42204 (EP,US); H04N21/42206 (EP,US); H04N21/42653 (EP,US); H04N21/4312 (EP,US); H04N21/4314 (EP,US); H04N21/4316 (EP,US); H04N21/4331 (EP,US); H04N21/4344 (EP,US); H04N21/4345 (EP,US); H04N21/435 (EP,US); H04N21/4385 (EP,US); H04N21/44204 (EP,US); H04N21/44222 (EP,KR,US); H04N21/443 (EP,US); H04N21/4532 (EP,US); H04N21/454 (EP,US); H04N21/4622 (EP,US); H04N21/4668 (EP,US); H04N21/47 (EP,US); H04N21/472 (EP,US); H04N21/47211 (EP,US); H04N21/47214 (EP,US); H04N21/4755 (EP,US); H04N21/478 (EP,US); H04N21/4788 (EP,US); H04N21/482 (EP,US); H04N21/4821 (EP,US); H04N21/64307 (EP,US); H04N21/6543 (EP,US); H04N21/6547 (EP,US); H04N21/812 (EP,US); H04N21/8146 (EP,US); H04N21/8166 (EP,US); H04N21/8173 (EP,US); H04N21/8586 (EP,US); H04N5/44504 (EP,US); H04N5/602 (EP,US); H04N7/088 (EP,US); H04N7/0882 (EP,US); H04N7/0884 (EP,US); H04N7/0887 (EP,US); H04N7/10 (EP,US); H04N7/102 (EP,US); H04N7/163 (EP,US); H04N7/165 (EP,US); H04N7/173 (EP,US); H04N7/17318 (EP,US); H04N7/17336 (EP,US); H04N7/17354 (EP,US); H04H20/02 (EP,US); H04H20/78 (EP,US); H04H20/95 (EP,US); H04H2201/70 (EP,US); H04H60/22 (EP,US); H04H60/23 (EP,US); H04H60/66 (EP,US); H04H60/74 (EP,US); H04H60/94 (EP,US); H04H60/96 (EP,US); H04H60/97 (EP,US); H04M1/57 (EP,US); H04N21/426 (EP,US); H04N5/445 (EP,US); H04N5/45 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, NL, PT, SE [1998/32]
Title	German:	Aufsatz- Endgerät für Kabelfernsehverteilsysteme	[1998/32]
	English:	Set top terminal for cable television delivery systems	[1998/32]
	French:	Terminal privé placé sur un récepteur de télévision pour systèmes de diffusion de programmes de télévision par câble	[1998/32]
Examination procedure	21.04.1998	Examination requested [1998/32]
	12.04.2000	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	23.10.2000	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	24.04.2001	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
	04.09.2001	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
	26.10.2001	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	30.01.2002	Fee for grant paid
	30.01.2002	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP94903362.5 / EP0673581
Divisional application(s)	EP01113921.9 / EP1164797
Opposition(s)	06.05.2003	No opposition filed within time limit [2003/30]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	21.04.1998	Renewal fee patent year 03
	21.04.1998	Renewal fee patent year 04
	21.04.1998	Renewal fee patent year 05
	11.12.1998	Renewal fee patent year 06
	09.12.1999	Renewal fee patent year 07
	13.12.2000	Renewal fee patent year 08
	13.12.2001	Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	BE	31.07.2002
	GR	31.07.2002
	IT	31.07.2002
	NL	31.07.2002
	DK	31.10.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
	PT	14.11.2002
	[2008/12]
Former [2003/48]	BE	31.07.2002
	GR	31.07.2002
	NL	31.07.2002
	DK	31.10.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
	PT	14.11.2002
Former [2003/46]	GR	31.07.2002
	NL	31.07.2002
	DK	31.10.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
	PT	14.11.2002
Former [2003/22]	GR	31.07.2002
	NL	31.07.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
	PT	14.11.2002
Former [2003/20]	GR	31.07.2002
	NL	31.07.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
Former [2003/09]	NL	31.07.2002
	SE	31.10.2002
Former [2003/03]	SE	31.10.2002
Documents cited:	Search	[Y]WO8601962 (SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA [US]) [Y] 15 * the whole document *;
		[YA]EP0328440 (SGS THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS [FR]) [Y] 1,12 * abstract * [A] 2-11,13,14,16-20;
		[YA]WO9100670 (SUPERGUIDE CORP [US]) [Y] 1,12,15,21 * the whole document * [A] 2-11,13,14,16-20,22;
		[A]US5144663 (KUDELSKI ANDRE [CH], et al) [A] 1-10,18-20 * the whole document *;
		[YA]WO9217027 (SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA [US]) [Y] 21 * the whole document * [A] 22;
		[AP]EP0570785 (THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS [FR]) [AP] 1-10,18-20* abstract *

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