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EP2066111 - Image processing apparatus and control method [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.04.2014
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip14.11.2014Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): FR
published on 17.12.2014  [2014/51]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2 Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku
Tokyo 146-8501 / JP
[2009/23]
Inventor(s)01 / Matsuzaki, Masanori
c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2,Shimomaruko 3-chome
Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP
 [2012/38]
Former [2009/23]01 / Matsuzaki, Masanori
c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-cho
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 [2013/23]Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex
UB11 1ET / GB
Former [2009/36]Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex
UB11 1ET / GB
Former [2009/23]Sharp, Alan Cooper
Canon Europe Ltd. European Patent Department 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1JA / GB
Application number, filing date08170142.727.11.2008
[2009/23]
Priority number, dateJP2007030789528.11.2007         Original published format: JP 2007307895
[2009/23]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2066111
Date:03.06.2009
Language:EN
[2009/23]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2066111
Date:22.09.2010
[2010/38]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2066111
Date:05.06.2013
Language:EN
[2013/23]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP24.08.2010
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/60
[2009/23]
CPC:
H04N1/2307 (EP,US); H04N1/2315 (EP,US); H04N1/2361 (EP,US);
H04N1/32539 (EP,US); H04N1/40006 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [2011/21]
Former [2009/23]AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  HR,  HU,  IE,  IS,  IT,  LI,  LT,  LU,  LV,  MC,  MT,  NL,  NO,  PL,  PT,  RO,  SE,  SI,  SK,  TR 
TitleGerman:Bildverarbeitungsvorrichtung und Steuerverfahren[2009/23]
English:Image processing apparatus and control method[2009/23]
French:Appareil de traitement d'image et procédé de commande[2009/23]
Examination procedure15.03.2011Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
22.03.2011Examination requested  [2011/17]
20.08.2012Communication of intention to grant the patent
23.11.2012Disapproval of the communication of intention to grant the patent by the applicant or resumption of examination proceedings by the EPO
06.03.2013Communication of intention to grant the patent
23.04.2013Fee for grant paid
23.04.2013Fee for publishing/printing paid
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  20.08.2012
Opposition(s)06.03.2014No opposition filed within time limit [2014/20]
Fees paidRenewal fee
30.11.2010Renewal fee patent year 03
30.11.2011Renewal fee patent year 04
30.11.2012Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT05.06.2013
NL05.06.2013
ES16.09.2013
FR02.12.2013
[2014/51]
Former [2014/24]IT05.06.2013
NL05.06.2013
ES16.09.2013
Former [2014/14]NL05.06.2013
ES16.09.2013
Former [2013/48]ES16.09.2013
Documents cited:Search[X]US2007263237  (ROBINSON DAVID C [US]) [X] 1,8,17,18 * paragraph [0023] - paragraph [0044] *;
 [A]US2007127066  (HABA KENYA [JP]) [A] 1-18 * paragraph [0033] - paragraph [0061]; figures 3-6 *;
 [A]EP0893753  (SEIKO EPSON CORP [JP]) [A] 1-18 * column 3, line 45 - column 9, line 52 *
by applicantJP2006168200
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