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EP2424211 - Program state determination in an image forming apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 23.02.2018 Database last updated on 21.05.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	23.02.2018	Refusal of application	published on 28.03.2018 [2018/13]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP
	[2012/09]
Inventor(s)	01 / WATAISHI, Saki c/o Ricoh Company Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP
	[2012/09]
Representative(s)	SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB Joseph-Wild-Straße 20 81829 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2012/09]	Schwabe - Sandmair - Marx Patentanwälte Stuntzstraße 16 81677 München / DE
Application number, filing date	11178041.7	19.08.2011
	[2012/09]
Priority number, date	JP20100188576	25.08.2010 Original published format: JP 2010188576
	[2012/09]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP2424211
	Date:	29.02.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/09]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP2424211
	Date:	30.05.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/22]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	25.04.2012
Classification	IPC:	H04N1/32, H04N1/00, G06F9/54, G06Q10/06	[2012/21]
	CPC:	G06Q10/06 (EP,US); H04N1/00244 (EP,US); H04N1/00408 (EP,US); H04N1/00477 (EP,US); H04N1/00493 (EP,US); H04N1/00824 (EP,US); (+) H04N1/00954 (EP,US); H04N1/00973 (EP,US); H04N1/2392 (EP,US); H04N1/32561 (EP,US); H04N2201/0039 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [2012/09]	H04N1/32, H04N1/00
Designated contracting states	AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2012/09]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Title	German:	Programmstatus-Bestimmung in einer Bilderzeugungsvorrichtung	[2012/09]
	English:	Program state determination in an image forming apparatus	[2012/09]
	French:	Détermination d'état des programmes dans un appareil de formation d'images	[2012/09]
Examination procedure	19.08.2011	Examination requested [2012/09]
	03.08.2012	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	08.04.2015	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	29.07.2015	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	23.10.2017	Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 21.11.2017
	09.11.2017	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2018/13]
	19.11.2017	Application refused, date of legal effect [2018/13]
	21.11.2017	Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
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 08.04.2015
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	23.08.2013	Renewal fee patent year 03
	25.08.2014	Renewal fee patent year 04
	20.08.2015	Renewal fee patent year 05
	22.08.2016	Renewal fee patent year 06
	22.08.2017	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:	Search	[XY]US2008209569 (ARAKI RYOJI [JP]) [X] 1,6-8,10 * the whole document * [Y] 4,8,10-12;
		[XY]US2004255263 (ANDO MITSUO [JP]) [X] 1,5,6 * the whole document * [Y] 1-12;
		[XDY]JP2004312711 (RICOH KK) [XD] 1,5,6 * abstract * [Y] 1-12;
		[XY]US2008183754 (KITADA HIROSHI [US]) [X] 1,6 * the whole document * [Y] 1-6,9;
		[XY]US2010138835 (YAGI ATSUKO [JP]) [X] 1,6 * the whole document * [Y] 1-6;
		[IY]US6715070 (PELOQUIN MARK A [US], et al) [I] 1,2,5,6 * column 4, lines 31-34 * * column 5, line 60 - column 6, line 10 * [Y] 1-6;
		[IY]US2007044085 (STAMPER DOUGLAS E [US], et al) [I] 1,4-8 * figures 1,2 * * paragraph [0022] - paragraph [0035] * [Y] 1-12;
		[IY]US2010162107 (NAKAJIMA RYO [JP], et al) [I] 1,2,4-6 * figures 1-5 * * paragraph [0022] - paragraph [0034] * [Y] 1-6;
		[IY]US2008155454 (BALASUBRAMANIAN SWAMINATHAN [US]) [I] 1,2,4-6 * figures 1-6,16 * * paragraph [0036] - paragraph [0041] * * paragraph [0080] * * table I * [Y] 1-6;
		[IY]US2007220510 (BELL DENISE A [US], et al) [I] 1,5-8 * figures 1-3, 4P, 4Q, 6 * * paragraph [0043] - paragraph [0067] * * paragraph [0090] * * paragraph [0128] * [Y] 1-12;
		[IY]US5999911 (BERG WILLIAM C [US], et al) [I] 1,3,5,6 * figures 3,13 * * column 2, lines 28-51 * * column 3, line 62 - column 9, line 2 * * column 11, lines 27-42 * * claim 9 * [Y] 1-6
	by applicant	JP2004312711

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