Reading product fabrication methodology

US 7,036,075 Term ended

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Term ended Mar 10, 2017 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.

Filed Sep 28, 2001 as application 09/928,822 · Granted Apr 25, 2006

Base term plus 215 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Mar 10, 2017

1996 2026

Clock starts
Aug 7, 1996

Term ended
Mar 10, 2017

Granted
Apr 25, 2006

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

215

Days of term adjustment

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

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 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 Aug 7, 1996, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 28, 2001)	Aug 7, 2016	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+215 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 10, 2017	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	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 10, 2017	From the USPTO record

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Reading product fabrication methodology

Term ended Mar 10, 2017 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Aug 7, 2016

How we calculated this date

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