Method and system for measuring the relief of an object

US 7,023,559 Surrendered on reissue

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Surrendered on reissue Nov 8, 2011 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Nov 8, 2011 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE42,899.

Named at grant Solvision Inc. · find this owner

Filed Jul 14, 2000 as application 10/031,031 · Granted Apr 4, 2006

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 434 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Surrendered Nov 8, 2011

2000 2026

Clock starts
Jul 14, 2000

No longer in force
Nov 8, 2011

Granted
Apr 4, 2006

Term would have run to
Sep 21, 2021

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events 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

434

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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Maintenance fees paid

Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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 Jul 14, 2000, when this application, 10/031,031, was filed	Jul 14, 2020	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+434 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 21, 2021	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	No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds	no change	Medium confidence
Reissue	US RE42,899 issued Nov 8, 2011, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Nov 8, 2011	High confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Nov 8, 2011	From the USPTO record

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Method and system for measuring the relief of an object

Surrendered on reissue Nov 8, 2011 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Jul 14, 2020

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