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EP About this file: EP0860292

EP0860292 - Thermal transfer printer [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  07.03.2003
Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip17.04.2015Change - lapse in a contracting statepublished on 20.05.2015  [2015/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
1-7 Yukigaya Otsuka-cho Ota-ku
Tokyo 145 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1998/35]For all designated states
ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
1-7 Yukigaya Otsuka-cho
Ota-ku Tokyo 145 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Ueda, Kazuo
2-25-2, kotorizawa
Morioka-shi, Iwate-ken / JP
02 / Yorozu, Hideki
1186-1-A, Aza Sugo
Takizawa-mura, Iwate-gun / JP
03 / Ishitobi, Yuusai
2-1-7, Kamido
Morioka-shi, Iwate-ken / JP
[1998/35]
Representative(s)Kensett, John Hinton
Saunders & Dolleymore LLP 9 Rickmansworth Road Watford
WD18 0JU / GB
[N/P]
Former [1998/35]Kensett, John Hinton
Saunders & Dolleymore, 9 Rickmansworth Road
Watford, Hertfordshire WD1 7HE / GB
Application number, filing date98300259.315.01.1998
[1998/35]
Priority number, dateJP1997002317022.01.1997         Original published format: JP 2317097
JP1997002978529.01.1997         Original published format: JP 2978597
JP1997005104319.02.1997         Original published format: JP 5104397
[1998/35]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0860292
Date:26.08.1998
Language:EN
[1998/35]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0860292
Date:17.03.1999
[1999/11]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0860292
Date:02.05.2002
Language:EN
[2002/18]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP03.02.1999
ClassificationIPC:B41J17/32, B41J35/22
[1999/12]
CPC:
B41J35/22 (EP,US); B41J33/00 (KR); B41J32/00 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1998/35]B41J17/32
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1999/48]
Former [1998/35]AT,  BE,  CH,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Wärmübertragungsdrucker[1998/35]
English:Thermal transfer printer[1998/35]
French:Imprimante par transfert thermique[1998/35]
Examination procedure06.04.1999Examination requested  [1999/22]
14.02.2000Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
08.06.2000Reply to a communication from the examining division
16.10.2000Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
07.02.2001Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.06.2001Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
25.07.2001Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.08.2001Fee for grant paid
02.08.2001Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)04.02.2003No opposition filed within time limit [2003/17]
Fees paidRenewal fee
07.01.2000Renewal fee patent year 03
23.01.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
28.01.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
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Former [2003/47]FR10.01.2003
Documents cited:Search[YA]EP0703089  (SHARP KK [JP]) [Y] 1,3-6,8 * abstract * * column 7, line 26 - column 11, line 24 * * figures 1-3,8-12; claim - * [A] 2,7,9-12;
 [DY]US5538351  (MIYANO TSUYOSHI [JP]) [DY] 1,3-6,8 * the whole document *;
 [A]US5267802  (PARNELL JAMES A [US], et al) [A] 1-12 * abstract * * column 9, line 42 - line 66 * * column 11, line 58 - column 12, line 52 * * figures 8,9 *;
 [A]JPS60253578  ;
 [A]JPH02103173
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19860510), vol. 010, no. 126, Database accession no. (M - 477), & JP60253578 A 19851214 (HITACHI SEISAKUSHO KK) [A] 1,7 * abstract *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19900704), vol. 014, no. 311, Database accession no. (M - 0994), & JP02103173 A 19900416 (ALPS ELECTRIC CO LTD) [A] 1,6-8 * abstract *
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