EP2689934 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 31.03.2017 Database last updated on 20.12.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 12.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 14.11.2018 [2018/46] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | [2014/05] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Yanase, Norikazu c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 02 /
Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 03 /
Kikura, Makoto c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 04 /
Kondo, Kazuyoshi c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 05 /
Obata, Yuuzoh c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 06 /
Uchino, Yoshinori c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | 07 /
Hosono, Gaku c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | [2014/05] | Representative(s) | Leeming, John Gerard J A Kemp 14 South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5JJ / GB | [2016/21] |
Former [2014/05] | Leeming, John Gerard J A Kemp & Co 14 South Square Gray's Inn London Greater London WC1R 5JJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 13177844.1 | 24.07.2013 | [2014/05] | Priority number, date | JP20120167768 | 27.07.2012 Original published format: JP 2012167768 | [2014/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2689934 | Date: | 29.01.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2689934 | Date: | 25.05.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/21] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.12.2013 | Classification | IPC: | B41J3/407, B41J11/00, B41J15/04, B41J15/16 | [2014/05] | CPC: |
B41J3/4075 (EP,US);
G06K15/024 (EP,US);
B41J11/0085 (EP,US);
B41J15/048 (EP,US);
B41J15/16 (EP,US);
G06K15/16 (EP,US)
| C-Set: |
G06K15/024, G06K15/16 (US)
| Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2014/05] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zur Bilderzeugung und Verfahren zur Bilderzeugung | [2014/05] | English: | Image forming apparatus and image forming method | [2014/05] | French: | Procédé et appareil de formation d'images | [2014/05] | Examination procedure | 24.07.2013 | Examination requested [2014/05] | 16.06.2014 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 09.03.2015 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 08.07.2015 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.01.2016 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.04.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 05.04.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 05.04.2016 | Receipt 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 09.03.2015 | Opposition(s) | 28.02.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/18] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.07.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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