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EP0020397 - PHOTOGRAPHIC BLEACH COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  14.09.2016
Database last updated on 28.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip14.09.2016No opposition filed within time limit 
Applicant(s)For:GB 
Kodak Limited
Kodak House, Station Road Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire HP1 1JU / GB
For:CH  DE  FR  NL 
Eastman Kodak Company
343 State Street
Rochester, NY 14650-2201 / US
[N/P]
Former [2008/38]For:GB 
Kodak Limited
Kodak House, Station Road Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire HP1 1JU / GB
For:CH  DE  FR  NL 
Eastman Kodak Company
343 State Street
Rochester NY 14650-2201 / US
Former [1982/19]For:GB 
Kodak Limited
Kodak House Station Road
Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP1 1JU / GB
For:CH  DE  FR  NL 
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (a New Jersey corporation)
343 State Street
Rochester, New York 14650 / US
Former [1981/01]For all designated states
KODAK LIMITED
P.O. Box 66 Station Road
Hemel Hempstead Herts, HP1 1JU / GB
For all designated states
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY (a New Jersey corporation)
343 State Street
Rochester, New York 14650 / US
Inventor(s)01 / FYSON, John R.
8 Meynell Crescent
Hackney London E.9 7AS / GB
[1981/01]
Representative(s)Pepper, John Herbert, et al
KODAK LIMITED Patent Department P.O. Box 114 190 High Holborn
London WC1V 7EA / GB
[1982/21]
Former [1981/01]Trangmar, Leigh Alan
66 The Avenue
Beckenham Kent / GB
Application number, filing date79901091.314.09.1979
[1981/01]
WO1979GB00152
Priority number, dateGB1936008167814.09.1978         Original published format: GB 3681678
[1981/01]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report
No.:WO8000624
Date:03.04.1980
[1980/07]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0020397
Date:07.01.1981
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.04.1980 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1981/01]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0020397
Date:10.11.1982
Language:EN
[1982/45]
ClassificationIPC:G03C5/38, G03C5/44, G03C7/42
[1981/01]
CPC:
G03C5/44 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   NL [1981/01]
TitleGerman:PHOTOGRAPHISCHE BLEICHMITTEL-ZUSAMMENSETZUNGEN UND VERFAHREN PHOTOGRAPHISCHER BEARBEITUNG[1981/01]
English:PHOTOGRAPHIC BLEACH COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING[1981/01]
French:COMPOSITIONS DE BLANCHIMENT PHOTOGRAPHIQUE ET PROCEDES DE DEVELOPPEMENT PHOTOGRAPHIQUE[1981/01]
File destroyed:02.03.1998
Entry into regional phase26.04.1980National basic fee paid 
26.04.1980Designation fee(s) paid 
30.08.1980Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure02.09.1980Examination requested  [1981/01]
22.06.1981Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
09.07.1981Reply to a communication from the examining division
10.09.1981Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
03.10.1981Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.03.1982Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: )
12.05.1982Communication of intention to grant the patent
21.07.1982Fee for grant paid
21.07.1982Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)10.08.1983No opposition filed within time limit [ N /P ]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.07.1981Renewal fee patent year 03
28.07.1982Renewal fee patent year 04
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Cited inInternational searchDE866605  [ ] (BAYER AG [DE]);
 DE1051117  [ ] (AGFA AG);
 [X]FR1338856  (CADUM PALMOLIVE);
 GB1032024  [ ] (ILFORD LTD);
 GB1200188  [ ] (AGFA GEVAERT NV [BE]);
 [X]FR2289935  (FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LTD [JP]);
 [X]DE2602987  (FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LTD)
    [ ] - Photographic Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, issued 1959, May-June (Washington DC USA) R.W. HENN "The Calcium-Sequestering Properties of Organic Compounds in Photographic Developers", see page 142compound No 6.
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