| EP0740245 - Handwritten data and command gesture input method and apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.08.2001 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | 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 [1996/44] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sakaguchi, Katsuhiko c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146 / JP | 02 /
Arai, Tsunekazu c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146 / JP | 03 /
Takasu, Eiji c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146 / JP | 04 /
Yoshii, Hiroto c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo 146 / JP | [1996/44] | Representative(s) | Pellmann, Hans-Bernd, et al Patentanwaltsbüro Tiedtke-Bühling-Kinne & Partner Bavariaring 4-6 80336 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/44] | Pellmann, Hans-Bernd, Dipl.-Ing., et al Patentanwaltsbüro Tiedtke-Bühling-Kinne & Partner Bavariaring 4 80336 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 96106667.7 | 26.04.1996 | [1996/44] | Priority number, date | JP19950106194 | 28.04.1995 Original published format: JP 10619495 | [1996/44] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0740245 | Date: | 30.10.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/44] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0740245 | Date: | 28.01.1998 | [1998/05] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0740245 | Date: | 04.10.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/40] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.12.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G06F3/033, G06F17/24 | [1998/03] | CPC: |
G06F3/04883 (EP,US);
G06T1/00 (KR)
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| Former IPC [1996/44] | G06F3/033 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [1996/44] | Title | German: | Handgeschriebene Daten und Befehlgesteneingabemethode und Gerät | [1996/44] | English: | Handwritten data and command gesture input method and apparatus | [1996/44] | French: | Méthode d'entrée de données manuscrites et de commandes de geste et appareil | [1996/44] | Examination procedure | 15.06.1998 | Examination requested [1998/33] | 18.09.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 17.03.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.07.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 06.08.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 29.11.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 12.04.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.07.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 12.07.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 05.07.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/38] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 29.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.04.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.04.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Former [2002/02] | FR | 02.03.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [A] KURTENBACH G ET AL: "ISSUES IN COMBINING MARKING AND DIRECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES", PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON USER INTERFACE SOFTWARE AND TECHNOL ( UIST ), HILTON HEAD, S. CAROLINA, NOV. 11 - 13, 1991, no. SYMP. 4, 11 November 1991 (1991-11-11), ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY, pages 137 - 144, XP000315074 [A] 1 * page 140, column R, paragraph 2 - page 142, column L, paragraph 6 * | [A] "Newton, MessagePad 110 Handbook", 1994, APPLE COMPUTER, INC., CUPERTINO, CA, USA, XP002047153 [A] 1 * page 83 - page 113 * |