EP2442185 - Fixing device, fixing device control method, and image forming apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 06.03.2020 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 06.12.2018 | ||
Former | Examination is in progress Status updated on 10.11.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 03.08.2022 [2022/31] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | [2012/16] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Ishigaya, Yasunori c/o Ricoh Company Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 02 /
Yamashina, Ryota c/o Ricoh Company Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 03 /
Samei, Masahiro c/o Ricoh Company Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | 04 /
Waida, Takumi c/o Ricoh Company Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome, Ohta-ku Tokyo, 143-8555 / JP | [2012/16] | Representative(s) | SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB Joseph-Wild-Straße 20 81829 München / DE | [2019/18] |
Former [2012/16] | Schwabe - Sandmair - Marx Patentanwälte Stuntzstraße 16 81677 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 11184600.2 | 11.10.2011 | [2012/16] | Priority number, date | JP20100230416 | 13.10.2010 Original published format: JP 2010230416 | JP20100230421 | 13.10.2010 Original published format: JP 2010230421 | JP20110087117 | 11.04.2011 Original published format: JP 2011087117 | JP20110087118 | 11.04.2011 Original published format: JP 2011087118 | [2012/16] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2442185 | Date: | 18.04.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/16] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2442185 | Date: | 01.05.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/18] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 01.02.2012 | Classification | IPC: | G03G15/20 | [2012/16] | CPC: |
G03G15/2039 (EP,US)
| 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 [2012/16] | Title | German: | Fixiervorrichtung, Steuerungsverfahren für Fixiervorrichtung und Bilderzeugungsvorrichtung | [2012/16] | English: | Fixing device, fixing device control method, and image forming apparatus | [2012/16] | French: | Dispositif de fixation, procédé de commande du dispositif de fixation et appareil de formation d'image | [2012/16] | Examination procedure | 11.10.2011 | Examination requested [2012/16] | 10.08.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 09.11.2017 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 09.03.2018 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.12.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.03.2019 | Fee for grant paid | 14.03.2019 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 14.03.2019 | 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 09.11.2017 | Opposition(s) | 04.02.2020 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/15] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 24.10.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.10.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 26.10.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 21.10.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 25.10.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 24.10.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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