EP3514632 - IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.03.2023 Database last updated on 18.11.2024 | |
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Former | Request for examination was made Status updated on 21.06.2019 | Most recent event Tooltip | 15.11.2024 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): BG | published on 18.12.2024 [2024/51] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | [2019/30] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
UEMATSU, Yuuichiroh c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 02 /
KANEKO, Satoshi c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 03 /
OCHI, Terumichi c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 04 /
HIRAI, Shuji c/o Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | [2019/30] | Representative(s) | SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB Joseph-Wild-Straße 20 81829 München / DE | [2019/30] | Application number, filing date | 18213485.8 | 18.12.2018 | [2019/30] | Priority number, date | JP20170244976 | 21.12.2017 Original published format: JP 2017244976 | [2019/30] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3514632 | Date: | 24.07.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3514632 | Date: | 18.05.2022 | Language: | EN | [2022/20] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.06.2019 | Classification | IPC: | G03G15/043, G03G15/00 | [2019/30] | CPC: |
G03G15/043 (EP,US);
G03G15/04072 (US);
G03G15/5058 (EP,US);
G03G2215/00033 (US);
G03G2215/00037 (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 [2019/30] | Title | German: | BILDERZEUGUNGSVORRICHTUNG | [2019/30] | English: | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | [2019/30] | French: | APPAREIL DE FORMATION D'IMAGES | [2019/30] | Examination procedure | 18.12.2018 | Examination requested [2019/30] | 26.11.2019 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 02.02.2022 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 16.03.2022 | Fee for grant paid | 16.03.2022 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 13.04.2022 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Opposition(s) | 21.02.2023 | No opposition filed within time limit [2023/17] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.12.2020 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 24.12.2021 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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PT | 19.09.2022 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US2011052231 (KITAO KATSUYUKI [JP]) [A] 1-10 * paragraphs [0037] - [0040]; figures 4,5 *; | [A]EP2639645 (RICOH CO LTD [JP]) [A] 1-10* paragraphs [0038] - [0054]; figure - *; | [A]US2015261162 (KANEKO SATOSHI [JP], et al) [A] 1-10 * paragraphs [0046] - [0054]; figure - * | by applicant | JP2013235167 |