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EP0676749 - Information reproducing device and method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.03.2001 Database last updated on 16.11.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	22.04.2005	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU	published on 08.06.2005 [2005/23]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP
	[N/P]
Former [1995/41]	For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Miyazaki, Toshihiko c/o Canon K.K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	02 / Sakai, Kunihiro c/o Canon K.K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	03 / Nose, Hiroyasu c/o Canon K.K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	04 / Kishi, Etsuro c/o Canon K.K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	05 / Kuroda, Ryo c/o Canon K.K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	[1995/41]
Representative(s)	Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1995/41]	Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date	95201397.7	31.07.1991
	[1995/41]
Priority number, date	JP19900206617	03.08.1990 Original published format: JP 20661790
	[1995/41]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0676749
	Date:	11.10.1995
	Language:	EN
	[1995/41]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0676749
	Date:	17.07.1996
	[1996/29]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0676749
	Date:	17.05.2000
	Language:	EN
	[2000/20]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	30.05.1996
Classification	IPC:	G11B7/00, G11B9/00, G11B11/00, G02B21/00	[1996/25]
	CPC:	G11B7/005 (EP,US); G11B11/00 (EP,US); G11B7/00455 (EP,US); G11B7/0052 (EP,US); G11B7/12 (EP,US); G11B7/1384 (EP,US); (+) G11B9/14 (EP,US); B82Y10/00 (US); B82Y20/00 (US); G01Q80/00 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [1995/41]	G11B7/00, G11B9/00
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1995/41]
Title	German:	Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Wiedergabe von Information	[1995/41]
	English:	Information reproducing device and method	[1995/41]
	French:	Dispositif et méthode de reproduction d'information	[1995/41]
Examination procedure	28.11.1996	Examination requested [1997/04]
	25.11.1998	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	22.03.1999	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	04.08.1999	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	22.11.1999	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	28.01.2000	Fee for grant paid
	28.01.2000	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP91307007.4 / EP0469879
Opposition(s)	20.02.2001	No opposition filed within time limit [2001/19]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.06.1995	Renewal fee patent year 03
	23.06.1995	Renewal fee patent year 04
	23.06.1995	Renewal fee patent year 05
	24.07.1996	Renewal fee patent year 06
	23.07.1997	Renewal fee patent year 07
	23.07.1998	Renewal fee patent year 08
	21.07.1999	Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	ES	17.05.2000
	GR	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	NL	17.05.2000
	LU	31.07.2000
	DK	17.08.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
	[2005/23]
Former [2004/07]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	ES	17.05.2000
	GR	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	NL	17.05.2000
	DK	17.08.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2003/45]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	ES	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	NL	17.05.2000
	DK	17.08.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2003/08]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	ES	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	NL	17.05.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2002/26]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	ES	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2002/02]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	CH	17.05.2000
	LI	17.05.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2001/27]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
	SE	17.08.2000
Former [2001/11]	AT	17.05.2000
	BE	17.05.2000
Documents cited:	Search	[A]EP0112402 (IBM [US]) [A] 1,4 * figures 3,5,8,7; claims 1,2,10 *;
		[DA]US4684206 (BEDNORZ JOHANNES G [CH], et al);
		[A]EP0363147 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,4 * figures 1,2; claims 1,2,1-163 *;
		[A]WO9004753 (FERRELL THOMAS L [US], et al) [A] 1,4 * figures 1A,1B; claims 1-7 *;
		[DA] - REDDICK ET AL., "New form of scanning optical microscopy", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, (19890101), vol. 39, no. 1, pages 767 - 770, XP000568994 [DA] 1,4 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.39.767
		[DA] - DÜRIG ETA L., "Near-field optical-scanning microscopy", JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, (19860515), vol. 59, no. 10, pages 3318 - 3327, XP000567945 [DA] 1,4 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.336848
	by applicant	US4684206
		JPS63161552
		JPS63161553
		- G. BINNIG ET AL., PHYS. REV. LETT., (1982), vol. 49, page 57
		- DUERIG ET AL., J. APPL. PHYS., (1986), vol. 59, page 3318
		- REDDICK ET AL., PHYS. REV., (1989), vol. B39, page 767
		EP19910307007

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