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Removing Carbon Nanotubes from a Continuous Reactor Effluent

US 10,343,104 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilySources & methods

Also listed on Solid Carbon Products, LLC, an earlier holder on the record.

Term ends no later than Aug 11, 2034 · Medium confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Oct 17, 2014 as application 14/395,447 · Granted Jul 9, 2019
Base term plus 488 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2034
Clock starts
Apr 10, 2013
Ends no later than
Aug 11, 2034
Granted
Jul 9, 2019
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
488
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term runs 488 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. from the record

How we calculated this date

One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 10, 2013, when application PCT/US2013/035988, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 17, 2014)Apr 10, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+488 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 11, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Aug 11, 2034Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2013/035988PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,343,104this patent
no later than Aug 2034
no later than Aug 2034
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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