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Multilayer Barrier Stacks and Methods of Making Multilayer Barrier Stacks

US 7,648,925 Term ended
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Term ended Apr 19, 2023 · High confidence

Filed Jul 12, 2007 as application 11/776,616 · Granted Jan 19, 2010
Base term plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Apr 19, 2023
2003 2026
Clock starts
Apr 11, 2003
Term ended
Apr 19, 2023
Granted
Jan 19, 2010
base term 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
8
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.
7
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 8 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 11, 2003, when application 10/412,133, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 12, 2007)Apr 11, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 19, 2023High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 19, 2023High confidence

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Application PCT/US2008/068337PCT application
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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
Aug 21, 2007
Reel 19721, frame 359
Moro, Lorenza; Chu, XiVitex Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 20, 2010
Reel 25524, frame 860
Vitex Systems, Inc.Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 7, 2012
Reel 28912, frame 83
Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Merger

Sources

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

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