Lapsed Nov 13, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 4, 2022
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Valmet Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jan 13, 2005 as application 10/497,753 · Granted Nov 13, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 13, 2015
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 4, 2002
Dec 4, 2002
No longer in force
Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015
Granted
Nov 13, 2007
Nov 13, 2007
Term would have run to
Dec 24, 2022
Dec 24, 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
20
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
42
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 Dec 24, 2022: its 20-year base term plus 20 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 4, 2002, when application PCT/SE2002/002229, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 13, 2005) | Dec 4, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +20 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 24, 2022 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 13, 2015 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 13, 2015 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,044,998 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2010 | May 2010 |
| Application 10/491,122 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,294,227 | this patent Nov 2015 | Nov 2015 |
| US 7,491,296 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 7,384,185 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 7,476,292 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2017 | Jan 2017 |
| US 7,384,184 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 7,691,235 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
8 of 42 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 13, 2005 Reel 15594, frame 441 | Bokstrom, Monica; Astrom, Per | Metso Paper, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 27, 2014 Reel 32551, frame 426 | Metso Paper, Inc. | Valmet Technologies, Inc. | Change of Name |
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Note
The 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites 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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