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EP0558294 - Ink supply device and ink jet recording apparatus using said device [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  02.06.2000
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip02.06.2000No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 19.07.2000 [2000/29]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1993/35]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Tanaka, Kiyoharu, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
02 / Uchida, Takashi, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
[1993/35]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1993/35]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date93301362.524.02.1993
[1993/35]
Priority number, dateJP1992003949026.02.1992         Original published format: JP 3949092
[1993/35]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0558294
Date:01.09.1993
Language:EN
[1993/35]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0558294
Date:06.03.1996
[1996/10]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0558294
Date:04.08.1999
Language:EN
[1999/31]
Former [1995/50]Type: A3 Search report
No.:EP0558294
Date:
Status:(deleted)
[1995/50]
[1996/10]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP06.01.1994
ClassificationIPC:B41J2/175
[1993/35]
CPC:
B41J2/1707 (EP,US); B41J2/17563 (EP,US); B41J2/17596 (EP,US);
B41J2202/12 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1993/35]
TitleGerman:Farbstrahlaufzeichnungsgerät mit Tintenversorgungsvorrichtung[1993/35]
English:Ink supply device and ink jet recording apparatus using said device[1993/35]
French:Appareil d'enregistrement à jet d'encre muni d'un dispositif d'alimentation en encre[1993/35]
Examination procedure11.07.1994Examination requested  [1994/36]
05.04.1995New documents discovered [1995/21]
26.11.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
06.06.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.07.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
26.01.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.05.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
27.11.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
13.01.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
18.02.1999Fee for grant paid
18.02.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)05.05.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/29]
Fees paidRenewal fee
17.02.1995Renewal fee patent year 03
19.02.1996Renewal fee patent year 04
19.02.1997Renewal fee patent year 05
18.02.1998Renewal fee patent year 06
18.02.1999Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:Search[X]JPH0437547  ;
 [A]JPS60204356  ;
 [A]US4456916  (KOCOT RAYMOND H [US]) [A] 4-7 * abstract *;
 [A]US4476472  (AIBA MASAHIKO [JP], et al) [A] 4-7 * column 2, line 15 - column 4, line 20; figures 2,3 *;
 [A]US4769658  (ODA GEN [JP], et al) [A] 2,9 * abstract *
 [X]  - SMITH; TOMEK, "ink jet pump", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, (197707), vol. 20, no. 2, pages 560 - 561 [X] 1,8
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19920519), vol. 016, no. 212, Database accession no. (M - 1250), & JP04037547 A 19920207 (MITA IND CO LTD) [X] 1,8 * abstract *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19860305), vol. 010, no. 055, Database accession no. (M - 458), & JP60204356 A 19851015 (CANON K.K.) [A] 4-7 * abstract *
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