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Interactive Automotive Rearvision System

US 7,224,324 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 29, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 26, 2001 as application 09/817,874 · Granted May 29, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 334 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 29, 2019
2001 2026
Clock starts
Mar 26, 2001
No longer in force
May 29, 2019
Granted
May 29, 2007
Term would have run to
Feb 23, 2022
base term patent term adjustment 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
334
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 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.
414
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 Feb 23, 2022: its 20-year base term plus 334 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. 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 Mar 26, 2001, when this application, 09/817,874, was filedMar 26, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+334 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 23, 2022High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 29, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 29, 2019High confidence

This family

US 6,690,268Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2016
Feb 2016
US 6,477,464Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2014
Nov 2014
US 6,538,827Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2015
Mar 2015
Application 09/808,428Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,224,324this patent
May 2019
May 2019
US 6,396,408Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,693,517Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2016
Feb 2016
US 6,341,523Term ended
no later than Jan 2018
no later than Jan 2018
8 of 414 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
Jul 16, 2001
Reel 11982, frame 972
Quist, Chad D.; O'brien, Francis; Lynam, Niall R.Donnelly CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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