EP0972646 - Printing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.12.2004 Database last updated on 20.12.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 03.02.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): NL | published on 22.03.2006 [2006/12] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
Former [2000/03] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Uchikata, Yoshio, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [2000/03] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2000/03] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. High Holborn 2-5 Warwick Court London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 99305604.3 | 15.07.1999 | [2000/03] | Priority number, date | JP19980201790 | 16.07.1998 Original published format: JP 20179098 | [2000/03] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0972646 | Date: | 19.01.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0972646 | Date: | 11.02.2004 | Language: | EN | [2004/07] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.10.1999 | Classification | IPC: | B41J19/20 | [2000/03] | CPC: |
B41J19/202 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, NL [2000/40] |
Former [2000/03] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Druckvorrichtung | [2000/03] | English: | Printing apparatus | [2000/03] | French: | Dispositif d'impression | [2000/03] | Examination procedure | 05.06.2000 | Examination requested [2000/31] | 26.06.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 07.01.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 02.08.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 11.02.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.04.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 17.10.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 17.10.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP03075760.3 / EP1350632 | Opposition(s) | 12.11.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2005/05] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.07.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 19.07.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 23.07.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | NL | 11.02.2004 | ES | 22.05.2004 | [2006/12] |
Former [2004/46] | ES | 22.05.2004 | Documents cited: | Search | [X]US4436439 (KOTO HARUHIKO [JP]) [X] 1-10 * column 9, line 49 - column 14, line 45; figures 13-21 *; | [AX]US4652159 (NAGAI AKIO [JP]) [A] 1-9 * column 3, line 7 - column 12, line 50 *[X] 10; | [X]JPH0971008 (BROTHER IND LTD) [X] 1-10; | US5926192 [ ] (YAMANE TOSHIYUKI [JP]) [ ] * column 5, line 3 - column 12, line 23; figures 2-9 * |