Term ended no later than Nov 25, 2021 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 3, 2021
Held by Anchor Packaging, LLC
Filed Aug 9, 2004 as application 10/914,298 · Granted Jul 17, 2007
Base term plus 53 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Nov 25, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2001
Oct 3, 2001
Ended no later than
Nov 25, 2021
Nov 25, 2021
Granted
Jul 17, 2007
Jul 17, 2007
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
53
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
3 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.
11
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 53 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 3, 2001, when application 09/970,273, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 9, 2004) | Oct 3, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +53 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 25, 2021 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Nov 25, 2021 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,786,351 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 7,246,714 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US D536,992 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 7,243,813 | this patent no later than Nov 2021 | no later than Nov 2021 |
| US 7,549,551 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 7,685,677 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,278,787 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,691,301 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
8 of 11 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2005 Reel 15550, frame 288 | Krueger, Kevin R. | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2019 Reel 49840, frame 936 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49801, frame 700 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse, AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49803, frame 277 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 30, 2019 Reel 49911, frame 872 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Aug 1, 2019 Reel 49928, frame 642 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Execution Date. Previously Recorded at Reel: 049911 Frame: 0872. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.. |
| Oct 11, 2019 Reel 50710, frame 139 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Lien Security Interest by Removal of Application Nos: 29/633,906 29/629,808, 29/629,900 and 29/629,818 Previously Recorded at Reel: 149801 Frame: 0700. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 4, 2020 Reel 54587, frame 298 | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 16, 2025 Reel 74117, frame 907 | UBS AG, Stamford Branch, Collateral Agent (as Successor in Interest to Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch) | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of First Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement, Recorded on July 18, 2019 at Reel 49801 Frame 0700 |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 53 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Nov 25, 2021. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.