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Set Up for a First Integrated Circuit Chip to Allow for Testing of a Co-Packaged Second Integrated Circuit Chip

US 7,006,940 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 28, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Rambus Inc.
Filed Oct 3, 2003 as application 10/679,673 · Granted Feb 28, 2006
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 28, 2018
2002 2026
Clock starts
Nov 27, 2002
No longer in force
Feb 28, 2018
Granted
Feb 28, 2006
Term would have run to
Nov 27, 2022
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.
45
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 Nov 27, 2022: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 27, 2002, when application 10/305,635, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 3, 2003)Nov 27, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh 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 Feb 28, 2018High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 28, 2018High confidence

This family

US 6,754,866Term ended
Nov 2022
Nov 2022
Application 10/205,883Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 6,812,726Term ended
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
US 6,882,171Term ended
Nov 2022
Nov 2022
US 7,006,940this patent
Feb 2018
Feb 2018
US 7,139,945Term ended
no later than Feb 2021
no later than Feb 2021
US 7,103,815Term ended
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
US 7,240,254Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2019
Jul 2019
8 of 45 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
Oct 3, 2003
Reel 14598, frame 483
Ong, Adrian E.Imapac Technology, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 28, 2009
Reel 22597, frame 896
Inapac Technology, Inc.Rambus Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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