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EP About this file: EP1333440

EP1333440 - Information processing apparatus and method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  13.11.2015
Database last updated on 30.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip19.02.2016Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): FR
published on 23.03.2016  [2016/12]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[2015/02]
Former [2003/32]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Takata, Tomomi
c/o Canon K. K.
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
02 / Sohma, Hidetomo
c/o Canon K. K.
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
 [2015/02]
Former [2003/32]01 / Takata, Tomomi
c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
02 / Sohma, Hidetomo
c/o Canon K. K., 30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
Representative(s)Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd
European Patent Department
3 The Square
Stockley Park
Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB
[N/P]
Former [2015/02]Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex
UB11 1ET / GB
Former [2008/41]Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Limited 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Uxbridge
UB11 1JA / GB
Former [2008/24]Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd. European Patent Department 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park
Middlesex, Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB
Former [2003/32]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court, High Holborn
London WC1R 5DH / GB
Application number, filing date03250601.631.01.2003
[2003/32]
Priority number, dateJP2002002410931.01.2002         Original published format: JP 2002024109
JP2002003903715.02.2002         Original published format: JP 2002039037
[2003/32]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1333440
Date:06.08.2003
Language:EN
[2003/32]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP1333440
Date:19.11.2008
[2008/47]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1333440
Date:07.01.2015
Language:EN
[2015/02]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP21.10.2008
ClassificationIPC:G11B27/034, G11B27/34, G06F17/30
[2003/32]
CPC:
G11B27/34 (EP,US); H04N21/236 (KR); G11B27/034 (EP,US);
G11B27/28 (EP,US); H04N21/43 (KR)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [2009/30]
Former [2003/32]AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  HU,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE,  SI,  SK,  TR 
TitleGerman:Informationsbearbeitungsgerät und Verfahren[2013/47]
English:Information processing apparatus and method[2003/32]
French:Appareil et procédé de traitement d'informations[2003/32]
Former [2003/32]Informationsberarbeitungsgerät und Verfahren
Examination procedure19.05.2009Examination requested  [2009/27]
20.05.2009Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
25.06.2009Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, HU, IE, LU, MC, PT, SE, SI, SK, TR
10.07.2009Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
18.01.2010Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.07.2011Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
01.02.2012Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.10.2013Date of oral proceedings
24.10.2013Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
31.10.2013Communication of intention to grant the patent
25.02.2014Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
10.03.2014Fee for grant paid
10.03.2014Fee for publishing/printing paid
31.07.2014Communication of intention to grant the patent
01.12.2014Fee for grant paid
01.12.2014Fee for publishing/printing paid
01.12.2014Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is  10.07.2009
Opposition(s)08.10.2015No opposition filed within time limit [2015/51]
Fees paidRenewal fee
18.01.2005Renewal fee patent year 03
31.01.2006Renewal fee patent year 04
31.01.2007Renewal fee patent year 05
31.01.2008Renewal fee patent year 06
13.03.2008Renewal fee patent year 07
01.02.2010Renewal fee patent year 08
31.01.2011Renewal fee patent year 09
31.01.2012Renewal fee patent year 10
31.01.2013Renewal fee patent year 11
31.01.2014Renewal fee patent year 12
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT07.01.2015
NL07.01.2015
FR09.03.2015
[2016/12]
Former [2016/03]IT07.01.2015
NL07.01.2015
Former [2015/39]NL07.01.2015
Documents cited:Search[X]  - "DIG35 Specification : Metadata for Digital Images - Version 1.1", INTERNET CITATION, (20010618), URL: http://www.nkp.cz/start/knihcin/digit/vav23/DIG35.pdf, (20021121), XP002224803 [X] 1-39 * paragraph [IX.2] * * paragraphs [VIII] , [0E.1] * * paragraph [A.3.3] * * paragraphs [05.3] , [05.6] , [3.2.4] , [3.3.2] * * paragraphs [D3.1] , [D3.3] *
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