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US 7,444,265 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 28, 2012 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 31, 2006 as application 10/558,967 · Granted Oct 28, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 28, 2012
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jun 7, 2004
No longer in force
Oct 28, 2012
Granted
Oct 28, 2008
Term would have run to
Jun 7, 2024
base term after the term ends 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.
0 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.
33
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 Jun 7, 2024: its 20-year base term, with no 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 7, 2004, when application PCT/SE2004/000886, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2006)Jun 7, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 28, 2012High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 28, 2012High confidence

This family

US 7,214,172Lapsed on the fee record
May 2015
May 2015
Application 10/509,981Abandoned
not computed
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US 7,325,464Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2016
Feb 2016
US 7,444,265this patent
Oct 2012
Oct 2012
US 8,092,653Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2020
Jan 2020
US 7,845,583Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2014
Dec 2014
US 8,038,844Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2019
Oct 2019
US 8,020,797Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2015
Sep 2015
8 of 33 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 26, 2006
Reel 17214, frame 77
Havela, Tuija; Lundberg, Mikael; Persson, Anders; Kryniski, KrystofMetso Paper, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 27, 2014
Reel 32551, frame 426
Metso Paper, Inc.Valmet Technologies, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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