EP0949800 - Image reading apparatus and control method therefor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 11.05.2007 Database last updated on 19.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.11.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 31.12.2008 [2009/01] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 146-8501 / JP | [2006/27] |
Former [1999/41] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 146 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Terajima, Hisao, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Shinada, Yasuyuki, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | 03 /
Ono, Takashi, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-Chome Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [1999/41] | Representative(s) | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford Crump LLP 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1999/41] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. High Holborn 2-5 Warwick Court London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 99302741.6 | 08.04.1999 | [1999/41] | Priority number, date | JP19980098947 | 10.04.1998 Original published format: JP 09894798 | [1999/41] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0949800 | Date: | 13.10.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/41] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0949800 | Date: | 18.10.2000 | [2000/42] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0949800 | Date: | 05.07.2006 | Language: | EN | [2006/27] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.09.2000 | Classification | IPC: | H04N1/04, H04N1/48 | [2000/42] | CPC: |
H04N1/484 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [1999/41] | H04N1/04 | Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT [2001/27] |
Former [1999/41] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Bildlesegerät und Stever verfahren dafür | [1999/41] | English: | Image reading apparatus and control method therefor | [1999/41] | French: | Dispositif de lecture d'image et procédé de commade pour le même | [1999/41] | Examination procedure | 12.03.2001 | Examination requested [2001/19] | 24.06.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 22.12.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 03.02.2005 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 16.06.2005 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.10.2005 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.02.2006 | Fee for grant paid | 20.02.2006 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 03.04.2006 | Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time | Opposition(s) | 10.04.2007 | No opposition filed within time limit [2007/24] | Request for further processing for: | 12.04.2006 | Request for further processing filed | 12.04.2006 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 28.04.2006 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 26.04.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 23.04.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.04.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.04.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 19.04.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 02.05.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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 | 05.07.2006 | IT | 05.07.2006 | ES | 16.10.2006 | [2009/01] |
Former [2008/17] | IT | 05.07.2006 | |
ES | 16.10.2006 | ||
Former [2007/21] | ES | 16.10.2006 | Documents cited: | Search | [XA]US4731661 (NAGANO FUMIKAZU [JP]) [X] 8,11,13,19 * the whole document * [A] 1,2,14,15,22,26; | [XA]US5450215 (IWAMA RYOUICHI [JP]) [X] 8,11,13,19 * the whole document * [A] 1,2,14,15,22,26; | [X]US5625470 (UETA SOUICHI [JP], et al) [X] 8,11,13,19 * the whole document * |