Term ended Sep 21, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 17, 2022
Held by CO2PAC Limited
Filed May 24, 2004 as application 10/851,083 · Granted Jun 9, 2009
Base term plus 522 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 21, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2002
Apr 17, 2002
Term ended
Sep 21, 2023
Sep 21, 2023
Granted
Jun 9, 2009
Jun 9, 2009
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
522
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
82
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 522 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Apr 17, 2002, when application 10/124,734, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 24, 2004) | Apr 17, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +522 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 21, 2023 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 21, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,612,451 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2015 | Sep 2015 |
| US 7,077,279 | Term ended Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
| Application 10/444,616 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2004/016405 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,543,713 | this patent Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2004/024581 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,152,010 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 8,381,940 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
8 of 82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2004 Reel 15373, frame 710 | Trude, Greg | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2005 Reel 15552, frame 299 | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch as Second-Lien Collateral Agent | Grant of Security Interest |
| Jan 6, 2005 Reel 15980, frame 213 | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch | Grant of Security Interest |
| Feb 2, 2009 Reel 22186, frame 693 | Ogg, Richard K.; Tobias, John W. | Graham Packaging Company L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 20, 2009 Reel 22291, frame 48 | Tobias, John W. | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 8, 2011 Reel 27011, frame 572 | Deutsche Bank AG, Gayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Release of Security Interests |
| Sep 26, 2011 Reel 26970, frame 699 | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Reynolds Group Holdings Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Mar 20, 2012 Reel 27895, frame 738 | Reynolds Group Holdings Inc. | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Mar 22, 2012 Reel 27910, frame 609 | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | The Bank of New York Mellon | Patent Security Agreement |
| Aug 4, 2020 Reel 53396, frame 531 | The Bank of New York Mellon, as the Collateral Agent and Trustee | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Release of Security Interest in Certain Patent Collateral |
| Aug 5, 2020 Reel 53414, frame 1 | Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent and Grantee | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | Release of Security Interest in Certain Patent Collateral |
| Sep 30, 2020 Reel 53961, frame 912 | Graham Packaging Company, L.p. | CO2PAC Limited | Assignment Effective April 27, 2020 |
Sources
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Note
The 522 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
197
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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