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EP About this file: EP0415725

EP0415725 - Image recording apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  10.01.1997
Database last updated on 03.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip30.11.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
Updated state(s): FR
published on 02.01.2008  [2008/01]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1991/10]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Serizawa, Yoji, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[1991/10]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1991/10]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date90309416.729.08.1990
[1991/10]
Priority number, dateJP1989022311331.08.1989         Original published format: JP 22311389
[1991/10]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0415725
Date:06.03.1991
Language:EN
[1991/10]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0415725
Date:10.06.1992
Language:EN
[1992/24]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0415725
Date:06.03.1996
Language:EN
[1996/10]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP23.04.1992
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/40, G06K15/12
[1994/14]
CPC:
H04N1/4005 (EP,US); G06K15/12 (EP,US); H04N1/0402 (EP,US);
H04N1/0411 (EP,US); H04N1/0446 (EP,US); H04N1/40037 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1992/24]H04N1/40, H04N1/04, G06K15/12
Former IPC [1991/10]H04N1/40, H04N1/04
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1991/10]
TitleGerman:Bildaufzeichnungsgerät[1991/10]
English:Image recording apparatus[1991/10]
French:Appareil d'enregistrement d'images[1991/10]
Examination procedure31.12.1990Examination requested  [1991/10]
01.07.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
09.01.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
26.04.1995Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
22.08.1995Communication of intention to grant the patent
25.10.1995Fee for grant paid
25.10.1995Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)07.12.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1997/09]
Fees paidRenewal fee
24.08.1992Renewal fee patent year 03
23.08.1993Renewal fee patent year 04
26.08.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
23.08.1995Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR06.03.1996
IT06.03.1996
DE08.06.1996
[2006/14]
Former [1999/42]IT06.03.1996
DE08.06.1996
FR02.08.1996
Former [1997/12]DE08.06.1996
FR02.08.1996
Former [1996/44]DE08.06.1996
Documents cited:Search[X]JPS62280040  ;
 [A]DE3738469  (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,3,4 * abstract * * figure 3 ** page 4, line 56 - page 4, line 63 *
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19880518), vol. 12, no. 164, Database accession no. (M - 698), & JP62280040 A 19871204 (TOSHIBA CORPORATION) [X] 1-4 * the whole document *
 [XA]  - BASSETTI, L.W.; ET AL., "PRINT ENHANCEMENT FOR LASER PRINTERS", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, (198810), vol. 27, no. 5, pages 3071 - 3072 [X] 1,2 [A] 3,4
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