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EP About this file: EP0917023

EP0917023 - Process cartridge [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  24.12.2004
Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip24.12.2004No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 09.02.2005  [2005/06]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Square Rochester
New York 14644 / US
[N/P]
Former [1999/20]For all designated states
XEROX CORPORATION
Xerox Square
Rochester, New York 14644 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Kumar, Ajay
51 South Ridge Trail
Fairport, New York 14450 / US
02 / Bryant, Jerry W.
219 Woodsmoke Lane
Rochester, New York 14612 / US
03 / Damji, Dhirendra C.
907 Meadow Ridge Lane
Webster, New York 14580 / US
[1999/20]
Representative(s)Rackham, Stephen Neil
Gill Jennings & Every LLP Broadgate House 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
[N/P]
Former [1999/20]Rackham, Stephen Neil
GILL JENNINGS & EVERY, Broadgate House, 7 Eldon Street
London EC2M 7LH / GB
Application number, filing date98309142.209.11.1998
[1999/20]
Priority number, dateUS1997097084714.11.1997         Original published format: US 970847
[1999/20]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0917023
Date:19.05.1999
Language:EN
[1999/20]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0917023
Date:17.05.2000
[2000/20]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0917023
Date:18.02.2004
Language:EN
[2004/08]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP04.04.2000
ClassificationIPC:G03G21/18
[1999/20]
CPC:
G03G15/02 (EP,US); G03G21/1803 (EP,US); G03G2221/0015 (EP,US);
G03G2221/1618 (EP,US); G03G2221/1693 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2001/04]
Former [1999/20]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Arbeitseinheit[1999/20]
English:Process cartridge[1999/20]
French:Unité de traitement[1999/20]
Examination procedure17.11.2000Examination requested  [2001/03]
28.02.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
15.04.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
14.07.2003Communication of intention to grant the patent
24.11.2003Fee for grant paid
24.11.2003Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)19.11.2004No opposition filed within time limit [2005/06]
Fees paidRenewal fee
30.11.2000Renewal fee patent year 03
30.11.2001Renewal fee patent year 04
02.12.2002Renewal fee patent year 05
01.12.2003Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[A]JPS6083068  ;
 [A]US4725731  (LANG JOSEPH H [US]) [A] 1,3 * column A; figures 1,2 *;
 [A]EP0738940  (CANON KK [JP]) [A] 1 * column 14, line 25 - line 37; figures 6,13,14,16 *;
 [A]US5646718  (SUWA KOICHI [JP], et al) [A] 1 * column 12, line 27 - column 13, line 51; figures 1,5,7 *
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19850910), vol. 009, no. 224, Database accession no. (P - 387), & JP60083068 A 19850511 (OLYMPUS KOGAKU KOGYO KK) [A] 1,2 * abstract *
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