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EP0908325
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0908325 - Improved rendering of continuous tone images by reducing clustering of halftone dots [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 12.12.2003 Database last updated on 02.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.01.2004 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 03.03.2004 [2004/10] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states AGFA-GEVAERT Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | [2003/06] |
| Former [2002/08] | For all designated states Agfa-Gevaert Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | ||
| Former [1999/15] | For all designated states AGFA-GEVAERT N.V. Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Horsten, Bart, c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. IIE 3800, Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | 02 /
Delabastita, Paul, c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. IIE 3800, Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | 03 /
Bosschaerts, Jacobus, c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. IIE 3800, Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | 04 /
Schellekens, Luc, c/o Agfa Gevaert N.V. IIE 3800, Septestraat 27 2640 Mortsel / BE | [1999/15] | Application number, filing date | 97203139.7 | 09.10.1997 | [1999/15] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0908325 | Date: | 14.04.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/15] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0908325 | Date: | 05.02.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/06] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 19.03.1998 | Classification | IPC: | B41M5/26, G03C1/00 | [1999/15] | CPC: |
G03C1/00 (EP);
G03C1/4989 (EP);
G03F5/00 (EP);
G03F7/20 (EP);
H04N1/4051 (EP);
B41M5/26 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | BE, DE, FR, GB [1999/52] |
| Former [1999/15] | AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Verbesserte Wiedergabe von Bildern mit kontinuierlichen Tönen durch Verringerung der Gruppierung von Halbtonpunkten | [1999/15] | English: | Improved rendering of continuous tone images by reducing clustering of halftone dots | [1999/15] | French: | Rendu amélioré d'images à tonalités continues par réduction du regroupement des points de demi-teinte | [1999/15] | Examination procedure | 14.10.1999 | Examination requested [1999/49] | 27.09.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 23.03.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 01.02.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 15.05.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 15.05.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 24.05.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | Opposition(s) | 06.11.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/05] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 02.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.10.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 31.10.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 31.10.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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 | BE | 05.02.2003 | [2004/10] | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0687102 (DAINIPPON SCREEN MFG. CO.) [A] 1 * column 1, line 54 - column 2, line 36 *; | [DA]EP0734147 (AGFA-GEVAERT AG) [DA] 1 * column 2, line 22 - column 3, line 17 * |