EP0855811 - Wavelength manager [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 15.09.2006 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.11.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 31.12.2008 [2009/01] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Marconi UK Intellectual Property Ltd New Century Park P.O. Box 53 Coventry, CV3 1HJ / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2003/34] | For all designated states Marconi UK Intellectual Property Ltd New Century Park P.O. Box 53 Coventry, CV3 1HJ / GB | ||
Former [1999/27] | For all designated states MARCONI COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED New Century Park P.O. Box 53 Coventry, CV3 1HJ / GB | ||
Former [1998/31] | For all designated states GPT LIMITED New Century Park P.O. Box 53 Coventry, CV3 1HJ / GB | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Wood, Nigel Robert Paynters Wood Bungalow, Finmere Road, Evenley Brackley, Northants NN13 5SB / GB | [1998/31] | Representative(s) | Stasiewski, Piotr Grzegorz Marconi Intellectual Property New Century Park Post Point 51 Coventry West Midlands CV3 1HJ / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2005/23] | Stasiewski, Piotr Grzegorz Marconi Intellectual Property New Century Park Post Point 51 Coventry, West Midlands CV3 1HJ / GB | ||
Former [1998/31] | Branfield, Henry Anthony The General Electric Company, p.l.c. GEC Patent Department Waterhouse Lane Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QX / GB | Application number, filing date | 98300393.0 | 20.01.1998 | [1998/31] | Priority number, date | GB19970001627 | 27.01.1997 Original published format: GB 9701627 | [1998/31] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0855811 | Date: | 29.07.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0855811 | Date: | 21.02.2001 | [2001/08] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0855811 | Date: | 09.11.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/45] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 08.01.2001 | Classification | IPC: | H04B10/145 | [1998/31] | CPC: |
G01J9/04 (EP,US);
G01J9/02 (EP,US);
H04B10/506 (EP,US);
H04B10/572 (EP,US);
G01J2009/0257 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, ES, FR, GB, IE, IT, NL [2001/46] |
Former [1998/31] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Wellenlängenführer | [1998/31] | English: | Wavelength manager | [1998/31] | French: | Gestionnaire de longueurs d'ondes | [1998/31] | Examination procedure | 17.08.2001 | Examination requested [2001/42] | 22.08.2001 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 13.12.2001 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, CH, DK, FI, GR, LU, MC, PT, SE | 07.06.2002 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 18.05.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 28.09.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.12.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 31.03.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.05.2005 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.09.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 12.09.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 10.08.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/42] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 20.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 04.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.01.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 29.01.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 28.02.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | Penalty fee | Penalty fee Rule 85a EPC 1973 | 27.09.2001 | AT   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | CH   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | DK   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | FI   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | GR   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | LU   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | MC   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | PT   M01   Not yet paid | 27.09.2001 | SE   M01   Not yet paid | Additional fee for renewal fee | 31.01.2005 | 08   M06   Fee paid on   28.02.2005 |
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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 | BE | 09.11.2005 | FR | 09.11.2005 | NL | 09.11.2005 | IE | 20.01.2006 | ES | 20.02.2006 | [2009/01] |
Former [2008/12] | BE | 09.11.2005 | |
NL | 09.11.2005 | ||
IE | 20.01.2006 | ||
ES | 20.02.2006 | ||
Former [2006/49] | BE | 09.11.2005 | |
NL | 09.11.2005 | ||
IE | 20.01.2006 | ||
ES | 20.02.2006 | ||
Former [2006/36] | BE | 09.11.2005 | |
NL | 09.11.2005 | ||
ES | 20.02.2006 | ||
Former [2006/33] | NL | 09.11.2005 | |
ES | 20.02.2006 | ||
Former [2006/24] | NL | 09.11.2005 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JPH0897775 ; | [XA]EP0435125 (NEC CORP [JP]) [X] 1 * column 1, line 3 - line 12 * * column 5, line 35 - column 6, line 47; figure 1 * * column 8, line 6 - line 44; figure 5 * * column 9, line 2 - column 14, line 35; figures 7,8A-8M,9A-9C *[A] 2-5; | [X] - J. ROLDAN, Sistema de Gestión del Espectro Óptico en Redes Ópticas Multiportadoras, BARCELONA, UPC, TESIS DOCTORAL-ETSETB, (1994), XP002156093 [X] 1,2 * page 3.10, paragraph 1 - page 3.11, paragraph 3; figure 3.6 * * page 5.33, paragraph 1 - page 5.34, paragraph 2 * | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19960830), vol. 1996, no. 08, & JP08097775 A 19960412 (NIPPON TELEGR & TELEPH CORP (NTT)) [X] 1,2 * abstract * |