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EP0631433 - Video camera and method of controlling the same [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  21.07.2000
Database last updated on 14.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip28.12.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 30.01.2008  [2008/05]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1994/52]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Yamada, Kunihiko, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[1994/52]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1994/52]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date94304466.920.06.1994
[1994/52]
Priority number, dateJP1993014946221.06.1993         Original published format: JP 14946293
[1994/52]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0631433
Date:28.12.1994
Language:EN
[1994/52]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0631433
Date:22.09.1999
Language:EN
[1999/38]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP06.10.1994
ClassificationIPC:H04N5/232
[1994/52]
CPC:
H04N23/60 (EP,US); H04N7/22 (KR)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [1994/52]
TitleGerman:Videokamera und Verfahren zum Steuern der Videokamera[1994/52]
English:Video camera and method of controlling the same[1994/52]
French:Caméra vidéo et méthode pour la commande de la caméra[1994/52]
Examination procedure17.05.1995Examination requested  [1995/31]
06.08.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.08.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
24.02.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
04.06.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
15.12.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
14.08.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
30.12.1998Communication of intention to grant the patent
05.03.1999Fee for grant paid
05.03.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)24.06.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/36]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.06.1996Renewal fee patent year 03
18.06.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
17.06.1998Renewal fee patent year 05
23.06.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT22.09.1999
[2008/05]
Documents cited:Search[A]EP0424111  (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1,2,14,18,20,23* abstract *;
 [A]US5093716  (KONDO TOSHIHARU [JP], et al) [A] 1,2,14,18,20,23 * figures 1,4A,4B; claims 1-3 *;
 [A]US5101277  (KANATA YOSHIO [JP]) [A] 1,2,14,18,20,23 * column W *;
 [A]EP0501723  (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2,14,18,20,23 * the whole document *;
 [A]  - NAUFEL, "Serial techniques expand your options for uC peripherals", EDN ELECTRICAL DESIGN NEWS, NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS US, (19880218), vol. 33, no. 4, pages 199 - 204, XP000567957 [A] * the whole document *
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