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EP0798248
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0798248 - Apparatus and method of determining a media level in a supply tray [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 01.12.2000 Database last updated on 06.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.12.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 17.01.2001 [2001/03] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Lexmark International, Inc. 740 New Circle Road N.W. Lexington, Kentucky 40511-1876 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/40] | For all designated states LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC. 740 New Circle Road N.W. Lexington, Kentucky 40511-1876 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Dutton, Todd Alan 1021 Kimbolton Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40509 / US | 02 /
Williams, Scott Stephen 1936 Williamsburg Road Lexington, Kentucky 40504 / US | 03 /
Wright, Phillip Byron 670 Mint Hill Lane Lexington, Kentucky 40509 / US | [1997/40] | Representative(s) | Tomlinson, Kerry John Dehns St Bride's House 10 Salisbury Square London EC4Y 8JD / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1997/40] | Tomlinson, Kerry John Frank B. Dehn & Co., European Patent Attorneys, 179 Queen Victoria Street London EC4V 4EL / GB | Application number, filing date | 97302118.1 | 26.03.1997 | [1997/40] | Priority number, date | US19960624772 | 27.03.1996 Original published format: US 624772 | [1997/40] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0798248 | Date: | 01.10.1997 | Language: | EN | [1997/40] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0798248 | Date: | 10.06.1998 | [1998/24] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0798248 | Date: | 02.02.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/05] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 20.04.1998 | Classification | IPC: | B65H7/00, B65H7/04 | [1998/19] | CPC: |
B65H7/00 (EP,US);
B41J13/00 (KR);
B41J29/393 (KR);
B65H2301/423245 (EP,US);
B65H2511/15 (EP,US);
B65H2511/30 (EP,US);
B65H2511/51 (EP,US);
B65H2511/514 (EP,US);
B65H2513/50 (EP,US);
| C-Set: |
B65H2511/15, B65H2220/03 (EP,US);
B65H2511/30, B65H2220/03 (US,EP);
B65H2511/51, B65H2220/03 (EP,US);
B65H2513/50, B65H2220/01 (US,EP); |
| Former IPC [1997/40] | B65H7/04 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1997/40] | Title | German: | Apparat und Verfahren zum Bestimmen eines Medienniveaus in einem Zuführbehälter | [1997/40] | English: | Apparatus and method of determining a media level in a supply tray | [1997/40] | French: | Appareil et procédé pour déterminer le niveau de médias dans une cassette d'alimentation | [1997/40] | Examination procedure | 05.08.1998 | Examination requested [1998/40] | 15.09.1998 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 19.01.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.02.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 13.07.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 14.09.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 14.09.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 03.11.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/03] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 23.03.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 03 |
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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. | Documents cited: | Search | [X]JPS60236951 ; | [A]US4103885 (FOX RICHARD SAMUEL) [A] 1,12 * column 6, line 30 - column 7, line 10; figures 1,5,7,8 *; | [A]DE3706810 (NIXDORF COMPUTER AG) [A] 1,12 * column 3, line 17 - column 6, line 4; figure - *; | [DA]US4928949 (RAMSEY JAMES S [US], et al) [DA] 1,12* figures 2B,4,5 * | [X] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19860419), vol. 10, no. 105, Database accession no. (M - 471)<2162>, & JP60236951 A 19851125 (CANON K.K.) [X] 1,2,6-10,12,15 * abstract * |