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US 7,512,793 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 31, 2017 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Feb 22, 2007 as application 11/677,739 · Granted Mar 31, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 31, 2017
2000 2026
Clock starts
Apr 24, 2000
No longer in force
Mar 31, 2017
Granted
Mar 31, 2009
Term would have run to
Apr 24, 2020
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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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 Apr 24, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 22, 2007)Apr 24, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNo term adjustment record on a grant after 2005, so none is addedno changeMedium confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 31, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 31, 2017From the USPTO record

Sources

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