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EP About this file: EP0372894

EP0372894 - Image communication apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  12.01.1995
Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip30.11.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 02.01.2008  [2008/01]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1990/24]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Koizumi, Shigeru
10-102, Higashi Takasago-cho 7-chome
Urawa-shi Saitama-ken / JP
[1990/24]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/24]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date89312641.705.12.1989
[1990/24]
Priority number, dateJP1988030814106.12.1988         Original published format: JP 30814188
[1990/24]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0372894
Date:13.06.1990
Language:EN
[1990/24]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0372894
Date:22.08.1990
Language:EN
[1990/34]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0372894
Date:09.03.1994
Language:EN
[1994/10]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP03.07.1990
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/21, H04N1/32, H04M1/65
[1994/10]
CPC:
H04N1/00302 (EP,US); H04M1/654 (EP,US); H04N1/00281 (EP,US);
H04N1/32363 (EP,US); H04N1/32379 (EP,US); H04N1/32384 (EP,US);
H04N1/32704 (EP,US); H04N1/3271 (EP,US); H04N1/32719 (EP,US);
H04N1/32732 (EP,US); H04N2201/001 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [1990/30]B65D19/34, B65D19/26, H04N1/21
Former IPC [1990/24]H04N1/21
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [1990/24]
TitleGerman:Bildübertragungsvorrichtung[1990/24]
English:Image communication apparatus[1990/24]
French:Appareil pour la communication d'images[1990/24]
Examination procedure31.12.1990Examination requested  [1991/10]
13.04.1992Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
23.10.1992Reply to a communication from the examining division
04.02.1993Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
15.06.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
24.06.1993Fee for grant paid
24.06.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)10.12.1994No opposition filed within time limit [1995/09]
Fees paidRenewal fee
31.12.1990Renewal fee patent year 03
25.11.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
23.12.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipES09.03.1994
IT09.03.1994
NL09.03.1994
[2008/01]
Former [2002/24]ES09.03.1994
IT09.03.1994
NL09.03.1994
Former [1999/42]IT09.03.1994
NL09.03.1994
Former [1995/10]NL09.03.1994
Documents cited:Search[X]JP63088949  ;
 [X]JP61242449  ;
 [X]US3914539  (HASHIMOTO TAKEMI);
 [Y]EP0245904  (PHILIPS NV [NL])
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 12, no. 324 (E-653)(3171) 2 September 1988; & JP-A-63 088 949 (SHARP) 20-04-1988, & JP63088949 A 19880902
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 11, no. (E-491)(2539) 24 March 1987; & JP-A-61 242 449 (MATSUSHITA) 28-10-1986, & JP61242449 A 19870324
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