Lapsed May 3, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 24, 2023
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Tesa SE
Filed Mar 12, 2010 as application 12/722,816 · Granted May 3, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 3, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Nov 24, 2003
Nov 24, 2003
No longer in force
May 3, 2023
May 3, 2023
Granted
May 3, 2011
May 3, 2011
Term would have run to
Nov 24, 2023
Nov 24, 2023
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.
3
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 Nov 24, 2023: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Nov 24, 2003, when application PCT/EP2003/013167, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 12, 2010) | Nov 24, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 3, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 3, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,723,436 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,935,762 | this patent May 2023 | May 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2010 Reel 25105, frame 146 | Tesa AG | Tesa SE | Change of Name |
| Dec 17, 2015 Reel 37317, frame 675 | Tesa SE | Tesa SE | Change of Address |
Sources
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Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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.