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B41B 23/00

Auxiliary devices for modifying, mixing or correcting text or layout in connection with photographic or photoelectronic composing

3 direct subcodes

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  • B41B 23/02 for mixing by line-by-line projection of parts of texts from a number of films on to another
  • B41B 23/04 for facilitating hand correction of texts
  • B41B 23/06 for correcting texts by removing incorrect lines from one film and splicing-in corrected lines from another film

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 8,446
  2. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,438
  3. HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,828
  4. CANON JP 5,419
  5. CANON 4,156
  6. BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,763
  7. BROTHER INDUSTRIES 2,779
  8. RICOH COMPANY JP 2,717
  9. FUJIFILM JP 2,423
  10. RICOH COMPANY 1,739