Lapsed Jun 1, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 29, 2023
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Valmet Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jun 17, 2005 as application 10/539,511 · Granted Jun 1, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1381 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 1, 2018
2003
2027
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2003
Oct 29, 2003
No longer in force
Jun 1, 2018
Jun 1, 2018
Granted
Jun 1, 2010
Jun 1, 2010
Term would have run to
Aug 10, 2027
Aug 10, 2027
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
1,381
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
44
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Aug 10, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 1381 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 29, 2003, when application PCT/SE2003/001671, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 17, 2005) | Oct 29, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1381 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 10, 2027 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 1, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 1, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,178,698 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2011 | Feb 2011 |
| US 7,033,069 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2010 | Apr 2010 |
| US 7,143,688 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 7,727,133 | this patent Jun 2018 | Jun 2018 |
| US 7,451,946 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 7,198,216 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 7,445,174 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 7,513,451 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
8 of 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2005 Reel 16517, frame 30 | Lundberg, Jorgen T.; Ponten, Fredrik | Metso Paper, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 27, 2014 Reel 32551, frame 426 | Metso Paper, Inc. | Valmet Technologies, Inc. | Change of Name |
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Note
The 1381 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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