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US 7,321,423 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 22, 2016 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Photon AG · find this owner
Filed Aug 9, 2004 as application 10/915,204 · Granted Jan 22, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 269 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 22, 2016
2004 2026
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2004
No longer in force
Jan 22, 2016
Granted
Jan 22, 2008
Term would have run to
May 5, 2025
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
269
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.

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Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 9, 2004, when this application, 10/915,204, was filedAug 9, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+269 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 5, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 22, 2016High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 22, 2016From the USPTO record

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