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Driving Circuit of a Liquid Crystal Display Panel

US 7,667,245 Surrendered on reissue
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Surrendered on reissue Jul 28, 2015 · Low confidence

Surrendered on reissue Jul 28, 2015 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE45,628 and US RE48,706.

Filed Dec 11, 2008 as application 12/332,346 · Granted Feb 23, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Surrendered Jul 28, 2015
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2005
No longer in force
Jul 28, 2015
Granted
Feb 23, 2010
Term would have run to
Aug 24, 2025
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.
4
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Aug 24, 2005, when application 11/161,988, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 11, 2008)Aug 24, 2025High 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 eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"no changeLow confidence
ReissueUS RE45,628 and US RE48,706 issued Jul 28, 2015, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)surrendered Jul 28, 2015High confidence
Surrendered on reissueThe steps above, in orderJul 28, 2015Low confidence

This family

US 7,479,666In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 7,667,245this patent
Jul 2015
Jul 2015
US RE45,628Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US RE48,706Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
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
Dec 11, 2008
Reel 21958, frame 300
Wu, Ming-zen; Jen, Chien-chihChunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 31, 2011
Reel 26837, frame 529
Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd.Intellectual Ventures Fund 82 LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 31, 2015
Reel 37407, frame 878
Intellectual Ventures Fund 82 LLCNytell Software LLCMerger

Sources

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