Still photographic camera and image generating process

US 6,700,616 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Mar 2, 2012 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Sinar AG · find this owner

Filed Aug 11, 2000 as application 09/637,115 · Granted Mar 2, 2004

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Mar 2, 2012

1994 2026

Clock starts
Nov 28, 1994

No longer in force
Mar 2, 2012

Granted
Mar 2, 2004

Term would have run to
Nov 28, 2014

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.

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 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Nov 28, 1994, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Aug 11, 2000); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Nov 28, 2014	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Mar 2, 2012	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 2, 2012	From the USPTO record

Sources

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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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Still photographic camera and image generating process

Lapsed Mar 2, 2012 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Nov 28, 2014

How we calculated this date

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