Package having particular humidity for liquid products

US 6,089,374 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Jul 18, 2004 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant May & Baker, Ltd. · find this owner

Filed Sep 30, 1994 as application 08/316,717 · Granted Jul 18, 2000

Base term, 17 years from grant or 20 from filing, whichever is later

Today

Lapsed Jul 18, 2004

1994 2026

Clock starts
Sep 30, 1994

No longer in force
Jul 18, 2004

Granted
Jul 18, 2000

Term would have run to
Jul 18, 2017

base term after the term ends Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 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.

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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, the 1995 transition rule	Granted Jul 18, 2000 + 17 years, or clock starts Sep 30, 1994 + 20 years, whichever is later	Jul 18, 2017	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jul 18, 2004	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 18, 2004	From the USPTO record

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

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

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Package having particular humidity for liquid products

Lapsed Jul 18, 2004 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Jul 18, 2017

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