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EP0494939
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0494939 - METHOD TO IMPROVE PRINTING QUALITY OF GREY SCALES AND COLOUR FOR PRINTERS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | Patent revoked Status updated on 14.03.2003 Database last updated on 20.12.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 22.08.2008 | Change - representative | published on 24.09.2008 [2008/39] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ARRAY PRINTERS AB Önnereds Brygga 13 421 57 Västra Frölunda / SE | [2003/15] |
| Former [1992/30] | For all designated states ARRAY PRINTERS AB Kryptongatan 20 S-431 33 Mölndal / SE | Inventor(s) | 01 /
LARSON, Ove Fullriggaregatan 10B S-421 74 Västra Frölunda / SE | [1995/02] |
| Former [1992/30] | 01 /
Larson, Ove Fullriggaregatan 10b S-421 74 Västra Frölunda / SE | Representative(s) | Hammond, Andrew David, et al Valea AB Box 1098 405 23 Gothenburg / SE | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/39] | Hammond, Andrew David, et al Valea AB Lindholmspiren 5 417 56 Göteborg / SE | ||
| Former [2002/25] | Hammond, Andrew, et al Ström & Gulliksson IP AB, Sjöporten 4 417 64 Göteborg / SE | ||
| Former [1992/30] | Roth, Ernst Adolf Michael, et al GÖTEBORGS PATENTBYRA AB Box 5005 S-402 21 Göteborg / SE | Application number, filing date | 90915213.4 | 04.10.1990 | [1992/30] | WO1990SE00640 | Priority number, date | SE19890003273 | 04.10.1989 Original published format: SE 8903273 | [1992/30] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO9104864 | Date: | 18.04.1991 | Language: | EN | [1991/09] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0494939 | Date: | 22.07.1992 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 18.04.1991 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [1992/30] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0494939 | Date: | 11.01.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/02] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | SE | 18.04.1991 | Classification | IPC: | B41J2/415, B41J2/005, G06K15/14 | [1992/30] | CPC: |
H04N1/40087 (EP);
B41J2/415 (KR);
H04N1/40043 (EP);
H04N1/4057 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, IT, LI, NL [1992/30] | Title | German: | VERFAHREN ZUR QUALITÄTSVERBESSERUNG IN HALBTON- UND MEHRFARBDRUCK FÜR DRUCKER | [1992/30] | English: | METHOD TO IMPROVE PRINTING QUALITY OF GREY SCALES AND COLOUR FOR PRINTERS | [1992/30] | French: | PROCEDE APPORTANT DES AMELIORATIONS A LA QUALITE DES GRIS ET DES COULEURS DANS DES IMPRIMANTES | [1992/30] | Entry into regional phase | 26.03.1992 | National basic fee paid | 26.03.1992 | Designation fee(s) paid | 26.03.1992 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 19.04.1991 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: DE | 26.03.1992 | Examination requested [1992/30] | 17.02.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 08.04.1994 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 23.06.1994 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.07.1994 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.10.1994 | Fee for grant paid | 04.10.1994 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | Opponent(s) | 01
04.09.1995
16.11.1995
ADMISSIBLE Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Septestraat 27 B-2640 Mortsel (Antwerpen) / BE | [1995/43] | 21.11.1995 | Invitation to proprietor to file observations on the notice of opposition | 19.03.1996 | Reply of patent proprietor to notice(s) of opposition | 30.07.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 29.11.1996 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 22.04.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the opposition division (Time limit: M04) | 16.08.1997 | Reply to a communication from the opposition division | 08.12.1998 | Date of oral proceedings | 28.12.1998 | Despatch of minutes of oral proceedings | 28.12.1998 | Despatch of communication that the patent will be revoked | 10.03.2003 | Legal effect of revocation of patent [2003/18] | Appeal following opposition | 05.03.1999 | Appeal received No. T0245/99 | 06.05.1999 | Statement of grounds filed | 27.09.2002 | Invitation to file observations in an appeal (Time limit: M02) [2002/39] | 14.02.2003 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the proprietor was rejected | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.10.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.10.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 07.09.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | DK | 11.01.1995 | CH | 31.10.2001 | LI | 31.10.2001 | NL | 01.05.2002 | [2003/01] |
| Former [2002/48] | DK | 11.01.1995 | |
| NL | 01.05.2002 | ||
| Former [1998/15] | DK | 11.01.1995 | Cited in | International search | [A]US4092650 (HINZ HANS-DIETER); | [A]US4498090 (HONDA SHIGEMICHI [JP], et al); | [A]US4672432 (SAKURADA NOBUAKI [JP], et al); | [A]US4736254 (KOTERA HIROAKI [JP], et al); | [A]EP0292292 (CANON KK [JP]) |