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EP0658043
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| EP0658043 - Image forming apparatus with gradation adjusting method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.08.1999 Database last updated on 01.01.2025 | 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 Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku Osaka 540 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/24] | For all designated states MITA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku Osaka 540 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hayashi, Syuji, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 / JP | 02 /
Fujimoto, Masaya, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 / JP | 03 /
Amakawa, Katsumi, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 / JP | 04 /
Nakamura, Koji, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 / JP | 05 /
Yamamoto, Haruo, c/o Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. 2-28, 1-chome, Tamatsukuri Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 / JP | [1995/24] | Representative(s) | WP Thompson 8th Floor 1 Mann Island Liverpool L3 1BP / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/24] | W.P. Thompson & Co. Coopers Building, Church Street Liverpool L1 3AB / GB | Application number, filing date | 94308861.7 | 30.11.1994 | [1995/24] | Priority number, date | JP19930310671 | 10.12.1993 Original published format: JP 31067193 | [1995/24] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0658043 | Date: | 14.06.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/24] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0658043 | Date: | 07.10.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/41] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 24.03.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H04N1/60 | [1995/24] | CPC: |
H04N1/6033 (EP,US);
H04N1/46 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1995/24] | Title | German: | Bilderzeugungsgerät mit Gradationsregulierungverfahren | [1995/24] | English: | Image forming apparatus with gradation adjusting method | [1995/24] | French: | Appareil de formation d'image avec procédé pour régler la gradation | [1995/24] | Examination procedure | 12.06.1995 | Examination requested [1995/32] | 26.01.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 08.04.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 06.07.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 06.07.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.07.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/39] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 11.11.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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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 | 07.10.1998 | IT | 07.10.1998 | GB | 07.01.1999 | DE | 08.01.1999 | [2008/05] |
| Former [2004/35] | FR | 07.10.1998 | |
| GB | 07.01.1999 | ||
| DE | 08.01.1999 | ||
| Former [2000/03] | GB | 07.01.1999 | |
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| FR | 05.03.1999 | ||
| Former [1999/36] | DE | 08.01.1999 | |
| FR | 05.03.1999 | ||
| Former [1999/30] | DE | 08.01.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]GB2207023 (SEIKOSHA KK) [A] 1,4 * abstract *; | [A]EP0269033 (DU PONT [US]) [A] 1,4 * abstract *; | [A]US4959669 (HANEDA SATOSHI [JP], et al) [A] 3,6 * column A *; | [A]US4751377 (ISHIZAKA HIDEO [JP], et al) [A] 1,4 * column A * |