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Bracket for Securing Side Airbag for Automotive Vehicle

US 7,699,339 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 20, 2014 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 9, 2008 as application 12/283,061 · Granted Apr 20, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Apr 20, 2014
2007 2027
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2007
No longer in force
Apr 20, 2014
Granted
Apr 20, 2010
Term would have run to
Mar 13, 2027
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.
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Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Mar 13, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 13, 2007, when application 11/717,423, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 9, 2008)Mar 13, 2027High 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 Apr 20, 2014High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 20, 2014High confidence

This family

US 7,523,958Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2013
Apr 2013
US 7,735,855In force
Mar 2027
Mar 2027
US 7,699,339this patent
Apr 2014
Apr 2014
US 7,695,000Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2014
Apr 2014
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
Mar 30, 2010
Reel 24159, frame 384
Delphi Korea CorporationDelphi Korea Limited Liability CompanyChange of Name
Jun 3, 2010
Reel 24474, frame 446
Delphi Korea LLCAutoliv Development ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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