Term ends Aug 15, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 24, 2027
Held by SHPP Global Technologies B.V.
Filed Jan 24, 2007 as application 11/626,557 · Granted Oct 5, 2010
Base term plus 569 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
Jan 24, 2007
Jan 24, 2007
Term ends
Aug 15, 2028
Aug 15, 2028
Granted
Oct 5, 2010
Oct 5, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
569
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 569 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jan 24, 2007, when this application, 11/626,557, was filed | Jan 24, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +569 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 15, 2028 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 15, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,557,154 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 7,807,745 | this patent Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 8,034,866 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 8,067,493 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2009/043048 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2009/043046 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
6 of 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2007 Reel 19692, frame 377 | Agarwal, Parminder; Cohoon, Kristen; Gasaway, Shellie Virginia; Kannan, Ganesh; Miller, Kenneth Frederick; Shah, Dhaval | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 1, 2008 Reel 20985, frame 551 | General Electric Company | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 18, 2008 Reel 21423, frame 1 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| May 25, 2010 Reel 24433, frame 978 | General Electric Company | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 17, 2014 Reel 32459, frame 798 | Citibank, N.a. | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 9, 2018 Reel 45028, frame 25 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | Change of Name |
| Nov 26, 2020 Reel 54528, frame 467 | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | SHPP Global Technologies B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 680 | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | SHPP Global Technologies B.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove the Application Number 15039474 Previously Recorded at Reel: 054528 Frame: 0467. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2028
Term ends Aug 15, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 569 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.