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EP0245678
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| EP0245678 - An electrophotographic apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.11.1993 Database last updated on 30.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.11.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 26.12.2007 [2007/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation New Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1987/47] | For all designated states International Business Machines Corporation Old Orchard Road Armonk, N.Y. 10504 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Beardsley, Gary Scott 18287 Shadowbrook Way Morgan Hill California 95037 / US | 02 /
Lee, Michael Hei-Wo 715 Seawood Way San Jose California 95120 / US | [1987/47] | Representative(s) | Moss, Robert Douglas IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1993/01] | Moss, Robert Douglas IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | ||
| Former [1990/03] | Atchley, Martin John Waldegrave IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | ||
| Former [1987/47] | Hobbs, Francis John IBM United Kingdom Limited Intellectual Property Department Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN / GB | Application number, filing date | 87105989.5 | 24.04.1987 | [1987/47] | Priority number, date | US19860861487 | 09.05.1986 Original published format: US 861487 | [1987/47] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0245678 | Date: | 19.11.1987 | Language: | EN | [1987/47] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0245678 | Date: | 17.11.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/46] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0245678 | Date: | 07.01.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/01] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 26.09.1988 | Classification | IPC: | G03G15/09, G03G21/00 | [1987/47] | CPC: |
G03G15/09 (EP,US);
G03G21/0047 (EP,US);
G03G2221/0005 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1987/47] | Title | German: | Elektrophotographisches Gerät | [1987/47] | English: | An electrophotographic apparatus | [1987/47] | French: | Appareil électrophotographique | [1987/47] | File destroyed: | 20.04.2002 | Examination procedure | 29.03.1988 | Examination requested [1988/21] | 14.08.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 12.12.1991 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.01.1992 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 17.03.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 14.04.1992 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 10.07.1992 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.08.1992 | Fee for grant paid | 14.08.1992 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.10.1993 | No opposition filed within time limit [1993/52] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 13.04.1989 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.04.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 15.04.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 29.04.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 07.01.1993 | [1999/42] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]JP60130778 ; | [A]JP5462835 ; | [A]JP57198470 ; | [A]US4142165 (MIYAKAWA SEIICHI, et al); | [A]DE3236385 (TOKYO SHIBAURA ELECTRIC CO [JP]) | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 9, no. 292 (P-406)[2015], 19th November 1985; & JP-A-60 130 778 (FUJI XEROX K.K.) 12-07-1985, & JP60130778 A 00000000 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 3, no. 85 (E-124), 21st July 1979, page 83 E 124; & JP-A-54 62 835 (RICOH K.K.) 21-05-1979, & JP5462835 A 00000000 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 7, no. 51 (P-179)[1196], 26th February 1983; & JP-A-57 198 470 (KINOSHITA KENKYUSHO K.K.) 06-12-1982, & JP57198470 A 00000000 |