Photographic composing machines having fixed or movable character carriers and without means for composing lines prior to photography

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:: PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
Subclass:: MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRONIC COMPOSING DEVICES

Filing statistics

IPC B41B 17/00 belongs to the parent subclass B41B, which recorded 118 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 9 in 2013 to 10 in 2023 (+11%), peaking at 20 applications in 2017. The most active applicants in class B41 are SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION (14,672 applications), CANON (14,153 applications) and RICOH COMPANY (8,049 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

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photographic composing machines

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Child Classifications

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B41B 17/02 with manually-adjustable character carriers to enable characters to be photographed in succession
B41B 17/04 with a carrier for all characters in at least one fount
B41B 17/18 Details

Top Applicants

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

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 14,672
CANON 14,153
RICOH COMPANY 8,049
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,044
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,312
BROTHER INDUSTRIES 6,887
KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 5,463
CANON JP 5,001
KONICA MINOLTA CORPORATION 4,512
BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,681