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Printer Incorporating a Capped Printhead Cartridge

US 7,824,026 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 2, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 6, 2008 as application 12/246,493 · Granted Nov 2, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Nov 2, 2022
2005 2026
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2005
No longer in force
Nov 2, 2022
Granted
Nov 2, 2010
Term would have run to
Dec 5, 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.
2 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.
4
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Dec 5, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 5, 2005, when application 11/293,840, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 6, 2008)Dec 5, 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 events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 2, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 2, 2022High confidence

This family

US 7,452,055In force
no later than Jan 2027
no later than Jan 2027
US 7,775,643Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 7,780,262Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2018
Aug 2018
US 7,824,026this patent
Nov 2022
Nov 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
Oct 6, 2008
Reel 21639, frame 792
Hibbard, Christopher; Silverbrook, Kia; Nakazawa, Akira; Jackson, Garry Raymond; Morgan, John Douglas PeterSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 9, 2012
Reel 28516, frame 458
Silverbrook Research Pty. Limited and Clamate Pty LimitedZamtec LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 25, 2014
Reel 33244, frame 276
Zamtec LimitedMemjet Technology LimitedChange of Name

Sources

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