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EP About this file: EP0500327

EP0500327 - Image processing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  06.08.1999
Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip06.08.1999No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 22.09.1999 [1999/38]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1992/35]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Isemura, Keizo, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
02 / Yoshihara, Kunio, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
03 / Ichikawa, Hiroyuki, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
04 / Sakai, Masanori, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
05 / Tanabe, Masatoshi, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
06 / Nimura, Mitsuo, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
07 / Funamizu, Yoshihiro, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
08 / Kishimoto, Hirohiko, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
[1992/35]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1992/35]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date92301333.819.02.1992
[1992/35]
Priority number, dateJP1991004766720.02.1991         Original published format: JP 4766791
JP1991015393829.05.1991         Original published format: JP 15393891
JP1991015393929.05.1991         Original published format: JP 15393991
[1992/35]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0500327
Date:26.08.1992
Language:EN
[1992/35]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0500327
Date:10.02.1993
Language:EN
[1993/06]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0500327
Date:30.09.1998
Language:EN
[1998/40]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP21.12.1992
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/46
[1992/35]
CPC:
H04N1/40012 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1992/35]
TitleGerman:Bildverarbeitungsgerät[1992/35]
English:Image processing apparatus[1992/35]
French:Appareil pour la traitement d'images[1992/35]
Examination procedure24.06.1993Examination requested  [1993/34]
26.05.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
05.12.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
20.03.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
30.09.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
17.09.1997Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
26.03.1998Communication of intention to grant the patent
12.06.1998Fee for grant paid
12.06.1998Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)EP98200211.5  / EP0860988
Opposition(s)01.07.1999No opposition filed within time limit [1999/38]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.02.1994Renewal fee patent year 03
17.02.1995Renewal fee patent year 04
19.02.1996Renewal fee patent year 05
19.02.1997Renewal fee patent year 06
18.02.1998Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:Search[X]EP0199272  (WANG LABORATORIES [US]);
 [X]DE3802736  (TOSHIBA KK [JP], et al);
 [XD]US4369461  (TAMURA YASUYUKI [JP]);
 [X]WO8801778  (ROHDE & SCHWARZ POLARAD INC [US]);
 [X]WO8903108  (FANUC LTD [JP])
 [X]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, unexamined applications, P section, vol. 14, no. 27, January 19, 1990 THE PATENT OFFICE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT page 123 P 992
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