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EP0593303
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| EP0593303 - Method for thermal transfer printing [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.07.1999 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states TEKTRONIX, INC. Wilsonville Industrial Park 26600 S.W. Parkway Avenue Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-1000 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/16] | For all designated states TEKTRONIX, INC. Wilsonville Industrial Park, 26600 S.W. Parkway Avenue Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-1000 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Brandt, Thomas J. 400 NE 12th Avenue Canby, Oregon 97013 / US | 02 /
Zimmerman, Stephen A. 7592 SW Vlahos Drive Wilsonvile, Oregon 97070 / US | [1994/16] | Representative(s) | Lawrence, Malcolm Graham, et al Avidity IP Broers Building Hauser Forum 21 JJ Thomson Ave Cambridge CB3 0FA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/28] | Lawrence, Malcolm Graham, et al Hepworth, Lawrence, Bryer & Bizley Merlin House Falconry Court Bakers Lane Epping Essex CM16 5DQ / GB | ||
| Former [1994/16] | Lawrence, Malcolm Graham Hepworth, Lawrence, Bryer & Bizley Merlin House Falconry Court Bakers Lane Epping Essex CM16 5DQ / GB | Application number, filing date | 93308217.4 | 15.10.1993 | [1994/16] | Priority number, date | US19920962367 | 16.10.1992 Original published format: US 962367 | [1994/16] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0593303 | Date: | 20.04.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/16] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0593303 | Date: | 19.10.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0593303 | Date: | 26.08.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/35] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 31.08.1994 | Classification | IPC: | B41M5/38, B41M3/00, B41M7/00 | [1994/42] | CPC: |
B41J2/325 (EP,US);
B41J2/525 (EP,US);
B41M3/00 (EP,US);
B41M5/38207 (EP,US);
B41M7/0027 (EP,US);
G06K15/102 (EP,US);
B41J2202/33 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1994/16] | B41M5/38 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1994/16] | Title | German: | Wärmeempfindliches Übertragungsdruckverfahren | [1994/16] | English: | Method for thermal transfer printing | [1994/16] | French: | Méthode pour l'impression par transfert thermique | [1994/16] | Examination procedure | 01.02.1995 | Examination requested [1995/13] | 28.11.1995 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 10.06.1996 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.10.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 25.04.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.11.1997 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 17.02.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.05.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 22.05.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 27.05.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/33] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.09.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 16.09.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 17.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | FR | 26.08.1998 | IT | 26.08.1998 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2004/35] | FR | 26.08.1998 | |
| Former [1999/36] | FR | 22.01.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [XA]EP0257633 (HITACHI LTD [JP]) [X] 1 * page 3, line 16 - line 30 * * page 4, line 14 - line 42; figures 1-3; claim 1 * [A] 2-18; | [XA]US4660051 (SASAKI EIICHI [JP]) [X] 1 * column 2, line 1 - line 24; figure 4; claims 1-7 * [A] 2-18; | [A]GB1021692 (ICI INCOME CASH INCREASE S A) [A] 1-18 * page 1, line 24 - line 38; claims 1,5 * | Examination | US4704615 | US4527171 |