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EP0875984
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
EP About this file: EP0875984
| EP0875984 - Dimmer [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 08.08.2003 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.03.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 09.04.2008 [2008/15] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states STMicroelectronics S.A. 29, Boulevard Romain Rolland 92120 Montrouge / FR | [2001/51] |
| Former [1999/05] | For all designated states STMicroelectronics S.A. 7, Avenue Galliéni 94250 Gentilly / FR | ||
| Former [1998/45] | For all designated states SGS-THOMSON MICROELECTRONICS S.A. 7, Avenue Galliéni 94250 Gentilly / FR | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Peron, Benoit 66, Avenue Maginot 37100 Tours / FR | [1998/45] | Representative(s) | de Beaumont, Michel Cabinet Michel de Beaumont 1, rue Champollion 38000 Grenoble / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [1998/45] | de Beaumont, Michel Cabinet Michel de Beaumont 1, rue Champollion 38000 Grenoble / FR | Application number, filing date | 98410044.6 | 28.04.1998 | [1998/45] | Priority number, date | FR19970005593 | 29.04.1997 Original published format: FR 9705593 | [1998/45] | Filing language | FR | Procedural language | FR | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0875984 | Date: | 04.11.1998 | Language: | FR | [1998/45] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0875984 | Date: | 02.10.2002 | Language: | FR | [2002/40] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.08.1998 | Classification | IPC: | H02M5/257 | [1998/45] | CPC: |
H02M5/2573 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1999/28] |
| Former [1998/45] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Dimmer | [1998/45] | English: | Dimmer | [1998/45] | French: | Gradateur de puissance | [1998/45] | Examination procedure | 24.04.1999 | Examination requested [1999/25] | 16.03.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 10.06.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 16.11.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 30.04.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 19.06.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M03) | 23.08.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 19.12.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 29.04.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.07.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 22.07.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 03.07.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/39] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 12.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | IT | 02.10.2002 | DE | 03.01.2003 | [2008/15] |
| Former [2003/46] | DE | 03.01.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [XY]US5072170 (CRANE LAWRENCE A [US], et al) [X] 1 * the whole document * [Y] 2,4,5,8; | [Y]US4504778 (EVANS WAYNE W [US]) [Y] 2,4,5,8 * figures 1-3 *; | [A]GB2187899 (LUTRON ELECTRONICS CO) [A] 7 * figure 3 *; | [A]US4870340 (KRAL KEVIN D [US]) [A] 1-8 * column 3, line 1 - line 40; figures 2,3,6 * |