EP0479537 - Image formation apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.11.1999 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 09.01.2008 [2008/02] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
Former [1992/15] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Ito, Yasuo, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Torisawa, Akira, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 03 /
Sakaki, Eihiro, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 04 /
Ohtake, Masaki, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 05 /
Ueno, Fumihiro, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1992/15] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1992/15] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 91308951.2 | 30.09.1991 | [1992/15] | Priority number, date | JP19900266869 | 03.10.1990 Original published format: JP 26686990 | JP19910032633 | 27.02.1991 Original published format: JP 3263391 | JP19910039949 | 06.03.1991 Original published format: JP 3994991 | [1992/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0479537 | Date: | 08.04.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/15] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0479537 | Date: | 26.08.1992 | Language: | EN | [1992/35] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0479537 | Date: | 20.01.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/03] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.07.1992 | Classification | IPC: | H04N1/40 | [1992/15] | CPC: |
H04N1/4056 (EP,US);
H04N1/40 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1992/15] | Title | German: | Abbildungsgerät | [1992/15] | English: | Image formation apparatus | [1992/15] | French: | Appareil de formation d'images | [1992/15] | Examination procedure | 14.01.1993 | Examination requested [1993/11] | 17.02.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M08) | 27.10.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 15.01.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 18.07.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.12.1997 | Date of oral proceedings | 09.01.1998 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 10.03.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 22.07.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.09.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 23.09.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.10.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/02] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.09.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 18.09.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 17.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 23.09.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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Former [2000/22] | FR | 18.06.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JP1120115 ; | [AD]US4384297 (OHARA YUJI [JP], et al); | [A]EP0080075 (IBM [US]); | [A]EP0204094 (HITACHI LTD [JP]); | [X]US4691211 (BROWNSTEIN SCOTT A [US]); | [AD]US4800442 (RISEMAN JOHN H [US], et al) | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 13, no. 364 (E-805)14 August 1989 & JP-A-1 120 115 ( MITA IND CO LTD ) 12 May 1989, & JP1120115 A 19890512 |