EP0835761 - Ink-jet printing apparatus and ink-jet printing method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.11.2005 Database last updated on 06.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.07.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 09.08.2006 [2006/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
Former [1998/16] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Abe, Junkichi Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1998/16] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1998/16] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 97307953.6 | 08.10.1997 | [1998/16] | Priority number, date | JP19960267041 | 08.10.1996 Original published format: JP 26704196 | JP19970274301 | 07.10.1997 Original published format: JP 27430197 | [1998/16] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0835761 | Date: | 15.04.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/16] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0835761 | Date: | 07.07.1999 | [1999/27] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0835761 | Date: | 29.12.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/53] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.05.1999 | Classification | IPC: | B41J3/60, B41J3/42, B41J3/54, G06K15/10, B41J11/00 | [1999/25] | CPC: |
B41J3/543 (EP,US);
B41J11/002 (EP,US);
B41J11/0021 (EP,US);
B41J11/0022 (EP,US);
B41J3/4078 (EP,US);
B41J3/42 (EP,US);
B41J3/60 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1999/09] | B41J3/60, B41J3/42 | ||
Former IPC [1998/16] | B41J3/60 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [2000/11] |
Former [1998/16] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Tintenstrahldruckvorrichtung und Tintenstrahldruckverfaren | [1998/16] | English: | Ink-jet printing apparatus and ink-jet printing method | [1998/16] | French: | Appareil d'impression à jet d'encre et méthode d'impression à jet d'encre | [1998/16] | Examination procedure | 15.11.1999 | Examination requested [2000/02] | 04.10.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.07.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.11.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.06.2004 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time | 23.08.2004 | Fee for grant paid | 23.08.2004 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 30.09.2005 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/51] | Request for further processing for: | 24.08.2004 | Request for further processing filed | 24.08.2004 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 29.09.2004 | Decision despatched | 22.07.2003 | Request for further processing filed | 22.07.2003 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 06.08.2003 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.10.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 22.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 25.10.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 22.10.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 22.10.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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Former [2006/14] | NL | 29.12.2004 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JPH0655731 ; | [A]DE3431968 (TOSHIBA KAWASAKI KK [JP]); | [A]EP0331481 (CANON KK [JP]); | [A]EP0380056 (CANON KK [JP]); | [A]EP0382023 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 4,5,11,12 * page 6, line 10 - line 55; figures 3A,3B * * page 8, line 20 - line 50; figures 11A,11B * * page 11, line 2 - line 15; figures 17A,17B *; | [A]EP0422924 (TEKTRONIX INC [US]) [A] 4,5,11,12 * column 6, line 30 - column 7, line 11; figures 4,5 *; | [A]EP0477969 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 7 * column 26, line 50 - column 27, line 38; figure 24 *; | [A]EP0622223 (HEWLETT PACKARD CO [US]) [A] 7 * abstract *; | [A]EP0646460 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 4,5,11,12 * page 20, line 43 - page 21, line 19; figure 10 *; | [XA]EP0659569 (NIPSON S A [FR]) [X] 1,8-10,13-16 * column 9, line 10 - column 10, line 39; figures 13-16 * [A] 2; | [A]EP0677392 (GEMPLUS CARD INT [FR]) [A] 3 * abstract *; | [XA]US5488458 (BENEDICT LAWRENCE R [US], et al) [X] 15,16 * column 7, line 33 - column 8, line 12; figures 1,10A,10B * [A] 1; | [XA]EP0700788 (KO PACK KK [JP]) [X] 15,16 * abstract * [A] 1; | [XA]EP0711063 (NUR ADVANCED TECH LTD [IL]) [X] 15,16 * the whole document * [A] 1,2; | [A]EP0726156 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 4,5,11,12 * page 6, line 50 - page 7, line 4; figure 4 *; | [XA] - DREJZA, "Duplex Printing with a Band Printer. February 1981.", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, New York, US, (198102), vol. 23, no. 9, pages 4101 - 4103, XP002089440 [X] 15,16 * the whole document * [A] 1 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19940602), vol. 018, no. 289, Database accession no. (M - 1614), & JP06055731 A 19940301 (TOKYO ELECTRIC CO LTD) [A] 7 * abstract * |