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EP0665682
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| EP0665682 - Colour image processing method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.07.2002 Database last updated on 10.12.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.06.2016 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 20.07.2016 [2016/29] | 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 /
Kumada, Shuichi, 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 | 95300572.5 | 30.01.1995 | [1995/31] | Priority number, date | JP19940010023 | 31.01.1994 Original published format: JP 1002394 | [1995/31] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0665682 | Date: | 02.08.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0665682 | Date: | 24.01.1996 | [1996/04] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0665682 | Date: | 12.09.2001 | Language: | EN | [2001/37] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 07.12.1995 | Classification | IPC: | H04N1/60 | [1995/31] | CPC: |
H04N1/6058 (EP,US);
B41B15/00 (US);
H04N1/46 (US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, NL [1995/31] | Title | German: | Farbbildverarbeitungsverfahren | [1995/31] | English: | Colour image processing method | [1995/31] | French: | Procédé de traitement d'images en couleurs | [1995/31] | Examination procedure | 07.06.1996 | Examination requested [1996/32] | 20.11.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 30.05.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 17.11.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 02.07.1998 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 31.08.1998 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.06.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 16.05.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 15.11.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 15.11.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 16.03.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.05.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 25.05.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Divisional application(s) | EP99203472.8 / EP0981244 | Opposition(s) | 13.06.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/36] | Request for further processing for: | 31.08.1998 | Request for further processing filed | 31.08.1998 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 06.10.1998 | 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 |
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