The patent EP3985446 was granted to The Swatch Group Research on May 24, 2023. The application was originally filed on Oct 14, 2020 under application number EP20201841A. The patent is currently recorded with a legal status of "Granted And Under Opposition".

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| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "Macrophotographie", Wikipedia, (20200731), pages 1 - 9, Wikipedia , URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Macrophotographie&oldid=173431217, (20200810), XP093168087 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "Mise au point (photographie)", Wikipedia, (20200508), pages 1 - 5, Wikipedia , URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mise_au_point_(photographie)&oldid=170608138, (20200810), XP093168093 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "Pattern recognition", Wikipedia, Wikipedia, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pattern_recognition&oldid=977739882, XP093305986 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "Profondeur de champ ", Wikipedia, (20200608), pages 1 - 24, Wikipedia , URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Profondeur_de_champ&oldid=171812005, (20200808), XP093168100 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "QMT group, machine QMTProTime-300", QMT-group, (20200920), pages 1 - 15, QMT-group, URL: https://www.qmt-group.com/fr/42/qmtprotime.html, XP093166986 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Anonymous, "Webcam Cybercaméra", Wikipedia, (20240416), pages 1 - 2, Wikipedia, URL: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam, XP093208204 | - |
| OPPOSITION | - Philippe Bentele, "SUPERLATIVE CONTROL Un nouvel équipement de contrôle de performance des montres", International Conference on Chronometry 2016, (20160901), pages 121 - 124, XP093166974 | - |
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