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EP About this file: EP0948192

EP0948192 - Image recording apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  26.05.2006
Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip14.03.2008Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): FR
published on 16.04.2008  [2008/16]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NORITSU KOKI CO., LTD.
579-1 Umehara Wakayama-shi
Wakayama / JP
[N/P]
Former [1999/40]For all designated states
NORITSU KOKI CO., LTD.
579-1 Umehara
Wakayama-shi, Wakayama / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Tanibata, Toru
Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd., 579-1 Umehara
Wakayama-shi, Wakayama / JP
[1999/40]
Representative(s)Müller-Boré & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB
Friedenheimer Brücke 21
80639 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1999/40]Müller-Boré & Partner Patentanwälte
Grafinger Strasse 2
81671 München / DE
Application number, filing date99106501.230.03.1999
[1999/40]
Priority number, dateJP1998008849701.04.1998         Original published format: JP 8849798
[1999/40]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0948192
Date:06.10.1999
Language:EN
[1999/40]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0948192
Date:04.04.2001
[2001/14]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0948192
Date:20.07.2005
Language:EN
[2005/29]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP21.02.2001
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/401, H04N1/40
[2001/14]
CPC:
H04N1/4015 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1999/40]H04N1/401
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2002/01]
Former [1999/40]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Bildaufzeichnungsgerät[2003/43]
English:Image recording apparatus[1999/40]
French:Appareil d'enregistrement d'image[1999/40]
Former [1999/40]Bilderzeugungsgerät
Examination procedure22.04.1999Examination requested  [1999/40]
19.06.2002Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
23.10.2002Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.12.2002Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
07.04.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
25.09.2003Communication of intention to grant the patent
05.02.2004Fee for grant paid
05.02.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)21.04.2006No opposition filed within time limit [2006/26]
Fees paidRenewal fee
27.03.2001Renewal fee patent year 03
27.03.2002Renewal fee patent year 04
27.03.2003Renewal fee patent year 05
29.03.2004Renewal fee patent year 06
30.03.2005Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipGB30.03.2006
FR31.03.2006
[2008/16]
Former [2007/30]GB30.03.2006
Documents cited:Search[Y]DE19643135  (RICOH KK [JP]) [Y] 1,5,6 * abstract *;
 [Y]EP0772341  (KONISHIROKU PHOTO IND [JP]) [Y] 1,5,6 * page 2, line 14 - line 17 * * page 7, line 34 - line 36 *;
 [Y]US5258248  (TOKUHASHI MASAKI [JP], et al) [Y] 1,3,6 * the whole document *;
 [Y]EP0501334  (SHARP KK [JP]) [Y] 1,3,6 * the whole document *;
 [A]JPH0447958
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19920528), vol. 016, no. 232, Database accession no. (M - 1256), & JP04047958 A 19920218 (SEIKO EPSON CORP) [A] * abstract *
ExaminationUS5018155
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