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EP About this file: EP0177146

EP0177146 - Image retouching [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.01.1990
Database last updated on 02.07.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip11.01.1990No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 28.02.1990 [1990/09]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CROSFIELD ELECTRONICS LIMITED
De La Rue House 3/5 Burlington Gardens
London W1A 1DL / GB
[1986/15]
Inventor(s)01 / Lai, Ching Tsueng
374 Long Chaulden
Hemel Hempstead Herts / GB
02 / Mackenzie, David John
82 Gravel Lane Boxmoor
Hemel Hempstead Herts / GB
[1986/15]
Representative(s)Skone James, Robert Edmund, et al
Gill Jennings & Every LLP The Broadgate Tower
20 Primrose Street
London EC2A 2ES / GB
[N/P]
Former [1986/15]Skone James, Robert Edmund, et al
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date85305809.715.08.1985
[1986/15]
Priority number, dateGB1984002220903.09.1984         Original published format: GB 8422209
[1986/15]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0177146
Date:09.04.1986
Language:EN
[1986/15]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0177146
Date:08.03.1989
Language:EN
[1989/10]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP19.02.1986
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/46, G06F3/023
[1986/15]
CPC:
H04N1/622 (EP,US); G06F3/04845 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB [1986/15]
TitleGerman:Retuschieren von Bildern[1986/15]
English:Image retouching[1986/15]
French:Retouche d'images[1986/15]
Examination procedure19.08.1986Examination requested  [1986/43]
13.05.1988Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
22.07.1988Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
17.08.1988Communication of intention to grant the patent
10.11.1988Fee for grant paid
10.11.1988Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)09.12.1989No opposition filed within time limit [1990/09]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.08.1987Renewal fee patent year 03
29.08.1988Renewal fee patent year 04
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Documents cited:Search[A]WO8002607  (HELL R GMBH [DE], et al)
 [AD]  - DATAMATION, vol. 25, no. 5, 1st May 1979, pages 150-156, Bariington, Illinois, US; R.G. SHOUP: "Superpaint ... the digital animator"
 [AD]  - COMPUTER, vol. 13, no. 6, June 1980, pages 45-54, Long Beach, US; W. MYERS: "Computer graphics: the human interface"
 [A]  - INFORMATION PROCESSING 80; PROCEEDINGS OF IFIP CONGRESS 80; Tokyo, JP, 6th-9th October 1980, Melbourne, AU, 14th-17th October 1980, pages 1039-1044, S.H. LAVINGTON, North-Holland Publishing Co.; C.F. HEROT: "A spatial graphical man-machine interface"
 [A]  - ELECTRONIC DESIGN, vol. 28, no. 10, May 1980, pages 161-166, Rochelle Park, US; B. HALE et al.: "Desktop computer clarifies graphics with vivid color"
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