EP2169472 - Image forming apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.06.2017 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 20.07.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MT | published on 22.08.2018 [2018/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 146-8501 / JP | [2010/13] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Seki, Hiroyuki c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Saito, Yoshiro c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 03 /
Funatani, Kazuhiro c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | 04 /
Hirai, Masahide c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [2016/33] |
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Seki, Hiroyuki c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | ||
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Saito, Yoshiro c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | |||
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Funatani, Kazuhiro c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | |||
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Hirai, Masahide c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Representative(s) | Garner, Jonathan Charles Stapleton Canon Europe Ltd European Patent Department 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB | [2016/33] |
Former [2010/13] | Garner, Jonathan Charles Stapleton Canon Europe Ltd European Patent Department 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB | Application number, filing date | 09171631.6 | 29.09.2009 | [2010/13] | Priority number, date | JP20080250527 | 29.09.2008 Original published format: JP 2008250527 | JP20090213340 | 15.09.2009 Original published format: JP 2009213340 | [2010/13] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2169472 | Date: | 31.03.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/13] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2169472 | Date: | 17.08.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/33] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.01.2010 | Classification | IPC: | G03G15/01 | [2010/13] | CPC: |
G03G15/0194 (EP,US);
G03G15/0136 (EP,US);
G03G2215/0119 (EP,US);
G03G2215/0193 (EP,US);
G03G2215/0196 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2016/33] |
Former [2010/13] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR | Title | German: | Bilderzeugungsvorrichtung | [2010/13] | English: | Image forming apparatus | [2010/13] | French: | Appareil de formation d'images | [2010/13] | Examination procedure | 29.09.2010 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 30.09.2010 | Examination requested [2010/45] | 21.05.2015 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 30.09.2015 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.03.2016 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 08.07.2016 | Fee for grant paid | 08.07.2016 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 08.07.2016 | Receipt 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 21.05.2015 | Opposition(s) | 18.05.2017 | No opposition filed within time limit [2017/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.09.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 01.10.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.09.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 30.09.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 30.09.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 07 |
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Former [2017/07] | LT | 17.08.2016 | Documents cited: | Search | [XY]EP0855627 (FUJITSU LTD [JP]) [X] 8-13 * columns 10,11; figures 7,25,26; claim 2 * * columns 20,21,23 * [Y] 1-13; | [YA]US6385427 (NAKANE EIJI [JP]) [Y] 1-7 * columns 7,10-12; figure - * [A] 8-13; | [YA]US2005069334 (HASHIMOTO JUNICHI [JP], et al) [Y] 8-13 * paragraphs [0006] , [0028] - [0032]; figures 2,3 * [A] 1-7; | [Y]US5594538 (TAKEKOSHI NOBUHIKO [JP], et al) [Y] 4 * figures 1,2,9 * | Examination | JP2007034085 | JP2006220825 | by applicant | JPH10207151 |