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EP1874036 - Color adjustment method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  02.02.2018
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  24.02.2017
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  20.02.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip02.02.2018No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 07.03.2018  [2018/10]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Square - 20A, 100 Clinton Avenue South Rochester
New York 14644 / US
[2008/01]
Inventor(s)01 / Woolfe, Geoffrey J.
4952 Hillcrest Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424 / US
 [2017/13]
Former [2008/01]01 / Woolfe, Geoffrey J.
4952 Hillcrest Drive
Canandaigua, NY 14424 / US
Representative(s)Gill Jennings & Every LLP
The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
[2017/13]
Former [2008/01]Skone James, Robert Edmund
Gill Jennings & Every LLP Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date07110925.025.06.2007
[2008/01]
Priority number, dateUS2006047948430.06.2006         Original published format: US 479484
[2008/01]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1874036
Date:02.01.2008
Language:EN
[2008/01]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP1874036
Date:22.10.2008
[2008/43]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1874036
Date:29.03.2017
Language:EN
[2017/13]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP22.09.2008
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/60, G06F17/30
[2008/01]
CPC:
G06F16/5838 (EP,US); H04N1/60 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2017/13]
Former [2009/27]DE,  FR,  GB 
Former [2008/01]AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  HU,  IE,  IS,  IT,  LI,  LT,  LU,  LV,  MC,  MT,  NL,  PL,  PT,  RO,  SE,  SI,  SK,  TR 
TitleGerman:Verfahren zur Farbeinstellung[2008/01]
English:Color adjustment method[2008/01]
French:Procédé de réglage des couleurs[2008/01]
Examination procedure22.04.2009Examination requested  [2009/23]
23.04.2009Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
03.06.2009Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.06.2009Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR
05.10.2009Reply to a communication from the examining division
25.04.2016Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.07.2016Reply to a communication from the examining division
11.10.2016Communication of intention to grant the patent
01.02.2017Fee for grant paid
01.02.2017Fee for publishing/printing paid
01.02.2017Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is  03.06.2009
Opposition(s)03.01.2018No opposition filed within time limit [2018/10]
Fees paidRenewal fee
30.06.2009Renewal fee patent year 03
30.06.2010Renewal fee patent year 04
30.06.2011Renewal fee patent year 05
02.07.2012Renewal fee patent year 06
01.07.2013Renewal fee patent year 07
30.06.2014Renewal fee patent year 08
30.06.2015Renewal fee patent year 09
30.06.2016Renewal fee patent year 10
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Documents cited:Search[A]US5611030  (STOKES MICHAEL [US]) [A] 1-12* the whole document *;
 [XY]JPH11194866  (FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LTD) [X] 1,2,8,12 * Abstract; par.63-65; fig.7. * [Y] 3,5-7;
 [Y]US7031920  (DOWLING KEVIN J [US], et al) [Y] 3,5-7 * column 2, lines 32-50 * * column 4, lines 13-58 *;
 [PA]US2007100786  (MORONEY NATHAN M [US]) [PA] 1-12 * the whole document *;
 [X]  - DISCLOSED ANONYMOUSLY, "Method to translate color requirements from a natural language-like representation into standard color references", RESEARCH DISCLOSURE, MASON PUBLICATIONS, HAMPSHIRE, GB, (20060301), vol. 503, no. 65, ISSN 0374-4353, XP007136036 [X] 1-12 * the whole document *
by applicantJPH11194866
 US7031920
    - "Method to translate colour requirements from a natural language-like representation into standard colour references", RESEARCH DISCLOSURE, MASON PUBLICATIONS, (20060301), vol. 503, no. 65
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