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US 6,485,123 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 26, 2014 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 14, 2001 as application 09/855,094 · Granted Nov 26, 2002
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Nov 26, 2014
1998 2026
Clock starts
Jul 10, 1998
No longer in force
Nov 26, 2014
Granted
Nov 26, 2002
Term would have run to
Jul 10, 2018
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
1,425
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 10, 2018: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jul 10, 1998, when application 09/112,815, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 14, 2001); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jul 10, 2018High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 26, 2014High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 26, 2014Medium confidence

This family

US 6,464,340Term ended
Aug 2018
Aug 2018
US 6,918,655Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2017
Jul 2017
US 6,938,989Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2013
Sep 2013
US 6,742,873Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2016
Jun 2016
US 6,923,526Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2017
Aug 2017
US 6,588,882Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2015
Jul 2015
US 6,505,912Term ended
no later than Jul 2018
no later than Jul 2018
US 6,485,123this patent
Nov 2014
Nov 2014
8 of 1425 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Assignments

Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 14, 2001
Reel 11817, frame 572
Silverbrook, KiaSilverbrook Research Pty. Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 12, 2012
Reel 28537, frame 738
Silverbrook Research Pty. Limited and Clamate Pty LimitedZamtec LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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