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EP0940773
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0940773 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 16.07.2004 Database last updated on 22.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states KONICA CORPORATION 26-2 Nishishinjuku 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/36] | For all designated states KONICA CORPORATION 26-2 Nishishinjuku 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nomura, Shouichi c/o Konica Corporation, 1 Sakura-machi Hino-shi, Tokyo / JP | [1999/36] | Representative(s) | Ellis-Jones, Patrick George Armine J.A. KEMP & CO. 14 South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5JJ / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1999/36] | Ellis-Jones, Patrick George Armine J.A. KEMP & CO. 14 South Square Gray's Inn London WC1R 5LX / GB | Application number, filing date | 99301570.0 | 02.03.1999 | [1999/36] | Priority number, date | JP19980050400 | 03.03.1998 Original published format: JP 5040098 | [1999/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0940773 | Date: | 08.09.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/36] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0940773 | Date: | 15.12.1999 | [1999/50] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0940773 | Date: | 10.09.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/37] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 28.10.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G06T5/40 | [1999/36] | CPC: |
G06T5/92 (EP,US);
G06T2207/10024 (EP,US);
G06T2207/10144 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2000/34] |
| Former [1999/36] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Bilverarbeitungsverfahren und -vorrichtung | [1999/36] | English: | Image processing method and image processing apparatus | [1999/36] | French: | Procédé et appareil de traitement d'images | [1999/36] | Examination procedure | 19.05.2000 | Examination requested [2000/28] | 23.09.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 14.01.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 18.03.2003 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 07.07.2003 | Fee for grant paid | 07.07.2003 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.06.2004 | No opposition filed within time limit [2004/36] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 13.03.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 11.03.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | FR | 10.09.2003 | DE | 11.12.2003 | GB | 02.03.2004 | [2006/14] |
| Former [2005/01] | DE | 11.12.2003 | |
| GB | 02.03.2004 | ||
| Former [2004/44] | DE | 11.12.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5208874 (OMURA KATSUYUKI [JP]) [A] 1-24 * column A ** column 2, line 54 - column 3, line 52 *; | [A]EP0587978 (TOSHIBA KK [JP]) [A] 1-24 * column A * * column 1, line 55 - column 2, line 1 * * column 2, line 47 - column 3, line 25 * |