Term ended Jul 22, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 22, 2024
Held by F&S B.V
Filed May 8, 2006 as application 11/429,842 · Granted Oct 9, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jul 22, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 22, 2004
Jul 22, 2004
Term ended
Jul 22, 2024
Jul 22, 2024
Granted
Oct 9, 2007
Oct 9, 2007
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.
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.
3
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 22, 2004, when application 10/710,585, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 8, 2006) | Jul 22, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 22, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,092,163 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,280,277 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,889,427 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2008 Reel 21311, frame 259 | General Electric Company | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 18, 2008 Reel 21423, frame 1 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Mar 17, 2014 Reel 32459, frame 798 | Citibank, N.a. | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 31, 2017 Reel 42149, frame 37 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | Change of Name |
| Apr 13, 2025 Reel 70825, frame 675 | SABIC Global Technologies B.V | F&S B.V | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
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