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EP0665683
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| EP0665683 - Image processing method and apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.05.2003 Database last updated on 24.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/31] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nishikawa, Naoyuki, c/o Canon K.K. 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1995/31] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/31] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 95300573.3 | 30.01.1995 | [1995/31] | Priority number, date | JP19940009887 | 31.01.1994 Original published format: JP 988794 | [1995/31] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0665683 | Date: | 02.08.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0665683 | Date: | 17.01.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0665683 | Date: | 17.07.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/29] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 30.11.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H04N1/60 | [1995/31] | CPC: |
H04N1/6011 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, NL [1995/31] | Title | German: | Bildverarbeitungsverfahren und -vorrichtung | [1995/31] | English: | Image processing method and apparatus | [1995/31] | French: | Procédé et appareil de traitement d'images | [1995/31] | Examination procedure | 30.05.1996 | Examination requested [1996/35] | 18.10.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 23.05.2000 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 02.08.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 20.12.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.06.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.10.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 23.01.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 27.03.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 27.03.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 22.04.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/28] | Request for further processing for: | 02.08.2000 | Request for further processing filed | 02.08.2000 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 22.08.2000 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.01.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.01.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.01.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.01.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 23.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 21.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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 | IT | 17.07.2002 | NL | 17.07.2002 | ES | 30.01.2003 | [2008/06] |
| Former [2004/04] | NL | 17.07.2002 | |
| ES | 30.01.2003 | ||
| Former [2003/08] | NL | 17.07.2002 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5081529 (COLLETTE ROBERT P [US]) [A] 1-28* column A; figure - *; | [XA]EP0534871 (EASTMAN KODAK CO [US]) [X] 1,4-8,13,14,17-20,23-28 * column A * * column 9, line 26 - line 50 * * column 11, line 37 - line 51 * * column 14, line 19 - line 28 * * column 15, line 11 - line 40 * [A] 3,9-12,15,16,21,22; | [XA]EP0537887 (CROSFIELD ELECTRONICS LTD [GB]) [X] 1,4,5,10-13,17,18,23,25-27 * column A * * column 1, line 12 - line 37 * [A] 2,3,6-9,14-16,19-22,24,28 |