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EP0770929
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0770929 - Image forming apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.02.2006 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 21.11.2008 | Change - lapse in a contracting state Updated state(s): FR | published on 24.12.2008 [2008/52] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/18] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Watanabe, Yukio, c/o Canon K.K. 30-2,3-chome,Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Kunishi, Tsuyoshi, c/o Canon K.K. 30-2,3-chome,Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 03 /
Abe, Mitsuka, c/o Canon K.K. 30-2,3-chome,Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 04 /
Toyohara, Yuichiro, c/o Canon K.K. 30-2,3-chome,Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1997/18] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/18] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 96307728.4 | 25.10.1996 | [1997/18] | Priority number, date | JP19950280426 | 27.10.1995 Original published format: JP 28042695 | [1997/18] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0770929 | Date: | 02.05.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/18] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0770929 | Date: | 21.05.1997 | [1997/21] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0770929 | Date: | 13.04.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/15] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.04.1997 | Classification | IPC: | G03G15/00, G03G15/02, H04N1/407 | [1997/20] | CPC: |
G03G15/75 (EP,US);
G03G15/0266 (EP,US);
G03G15/08 (EP,US);
H04N1/407 (EP,US);
G03G2215/021 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1997/18] | G03G15/00, G03G15/02 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1997/18] | Title | German: | Bilderzeugungsgerät | [1997/18] | English: | Image forming apparatus | [1997/18] | French: | Appareil de formation d'images | [1997/18] | Examination procedure | 02.10.1997 | Examination requested [1997/49] | 02.08.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.03.2001 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time | 30.05.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.10.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 09.05.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.08.2004 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.02.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 14.02.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 16.01.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/14] | Request for further processing for: | 30.05.2001 | Request for further processing filed | 30.05.2001 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 15.06.2001 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.10.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 21.10.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 20.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 22.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 25.10.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 22.10.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 22.10.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 09 |
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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 | FR | 13.04.2005 | IT | 13.04.2005 | [2008/52] |
| Former [2008/45] | IT | 13.04.2005 | |
| FR | 31.10.2005 | ||
| Former [2008/06] | IT | 13.04.2005 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]DE3727808 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2 * figure 1; claims 1,2 *; | [A]EP0271178 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2 * figure 1 *; | [A]EP0276107 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2 * figures 1,2; claim 1 *; | [A]EP0461656 (SHARP KK [JP]) [A] 1,2 * figure 1; claims 14,20 *; | [A]EP0555102 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2* figures 43-52; claims 1,12,23 *; | [A]EP0568352 (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1,2 * claims 1,35 *; | [A]US5305057 (HATTORI YOSHIHIRO [JP], et al) [A] 1,2 * abstract * |