Term ended Sep 1, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 5, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Krones AG
Filed Dec 5, 2005 as application 10/553,027 · Granted Jun 15, 2010
Base term plus 910 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 1, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 5, 2004
Mar 5, 2004
Term ended
Sep 1, 2026
Sep 1, 2026
Granted
Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010
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
910
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.
3
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 910 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 5, 2004, when application PCT/EP2004/002286, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 5, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 5, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +910 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 1, 2026 | 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 1, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,735,413 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,968,805 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2005 Reel 16845, frame 896 | Wasmuht, Klaus-karl; Stippler, Kurt | Krones AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 910 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites 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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