EP0860292 - Thermal transfer printer [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 07.03.2003 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.04.2015 | Change - lapse in a contracting state | published 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 date | 98300259.3 | 15.01.1998 | [1998/35] | Priority number, date | JP19970023170 | 22.01.1997 Original published format: JP 2317097 | JP19970029785 | 29.01.1997 Original published format: JP 2978597 | JP19970051043 | 19.02.1997 Original published format: JP 5104397 | [1998/35] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | 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: | EP | 03.02.1999 | Classification | IPC: | B41J17/32, B41J35/22 | [1999/12] | CPC: |
B41J35/22 (EP,US);
B41J33/00 (KR);
B41J32/00 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1998/35] | B41J17/32 | Designated contracting states | DE, 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 | Title | German: | Wärmübertragungsdrucker | [1998/35] | English: | Thermal transfer printer | [1998/35] | French: | Imprimante par transfert thermique | [1998/35] | Examination procedure | 06.04.1999 | Examination requested [1999/22] | 14.02.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 08.06.2000 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 16.10.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 07.02.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 07.06.2001 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 25.07.2001 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.08.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 02.08.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 04.02.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/17] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 07.01.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.01.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.01.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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Former [2003/47] | FR | 10.01.2003 | 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 * |