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US 7,333,982 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 19, 2020 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Mec Management, LLC
Filed Dec 9, 2002 as application 10/314,904 · Granted Feb 19, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 638 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 19, 2020
2000 2026
Clock starts
Feb 28, 2000
No longer in force
Feb 19, 2020
Granted
Feb 19, 2008
Term would have run to
Nov 27, 2021
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
638
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.

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 filingClock starts Feb 28, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 28, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+638 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 27, 2021High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 19, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 19, 2020Medium confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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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