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EP About this file: EP0608968

EP0608968 - A developing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.04.1999
Database last updated on 30.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip09.04.1999No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 26.05.1999 [1999/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1994/31]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Watanabe, Akira c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-Ku
Tokyo / JP
02 / Itoh, Masahiro c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-Ku
Tokyo / JP
03 / Sakemi, Yuji c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-Ku
Tokyo / JP
04 / Satomura, Hiroshi c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-Ku
Tokyo / JP
[1994/31]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1994/31]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date94200937.427.03.1990
[1994/31]
Priority number, dateJP1989008284931.03.1989         Original published format: JP 8284989
JP1989013895331.05.1989         Original published format: JP 13895389
JP1989014988913.06.1989         Original published format: JP 14988989
JP1989014989113.06.1989         Original published format: JP 14989189
[1994/31]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0608968
Date:03.08.1994
Language:EN
[1994/31]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0608968
Date:27.05.1998
Language:EN
[1998/22]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP10.06.1994
ClassificationIPC:G03G15/09
[1994/31]
CPC:
G03G15/0928 (EP,US); G03G15/0942 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1994/31]
TitleGerman:Entwicklungsgerät[1994/31]
English:A developing apparatus[1994/31]
French:Appareil de développement[1994/31]
Examination procedure16.12.1994Examination requested  [1995/07]
07.08.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
16.02.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.03.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
23.09.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.06.1997Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
24.11.1997Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
27.11.1997Communication of intention to grant the patent
28.01.1998Fee for grant paid
28.01.1998Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP90303206.8  / EP0390472
Opposition(s)02.03.1999No opposition filed within time limit [1999/21]
Fees paidRenewal fee
22.04.1994Renewal fee patent year 03
22.04.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
22.04.1994Renewal fee patent year 05
24.03.1995Renewal fee patent year 06
21.03.1996Renewal fee patent year 07
19.03.1997Renewal fee patent year 08
18.03.1998Renewal fee patent year 09
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Documents cited:Search[Y]JPS6270884  ;
 [A]JPS59170869  ;
 [A]JPS60151668  ;
 [DY]US4213617  (SALGER WERNER [DE]) [DY] 1,4,5 * column 5, line 35 - column 6, line 27; figures 1-12 *;
 [A]US4596455  (KOHYAMA MITSUAKI [JP], et al) [A] 1,4,16 * column 5, line 38 - column 6, line 55; figures 7,8 *;
 [A]US4597661  (YAMASHITA KEITARO [JP]) [A] 1-3 * column A; figure 3 *;
 [DPX]EP0314436  (CANON KK [JP]) [DPX] 1,4,5,7,16* figures 5,8,10-13; claims 8-16 *
 [Y]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19870903), vol. 11, no. 270, Database accession no. (P - 611)<2717>, & JP62070884 A 19870401 (TOSHIBA CORP) [Y] 1,4,5 * abstract *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19850205), vol. 9, no. 26, Database accession no. (P - 332)<1749>, & JP59170869 A 19840927 (MATSUSHITA DENKI SANGYO K.K.) [A] 1 * abstract *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19851221), vol. 9, no. 327, Database accession no. (P - 415)<2050>, & JP60151668 A 19850809 (FUJI XEROX K.K.) [A] 1,5 * abstract *
ExaminationJPS62143968U
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