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Authorized Filter Servicing and Replacement

US 7,959,714 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 14, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 15, 2007 as application 11/940,626 · Granted Jun 14, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 859 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 14, 2019
2007 2030
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 14, 2019
Granted
Jun 14, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 23, 2030
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
859
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.
11
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 Mar 23, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 859 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 15, 2007, when this application, 11/940,626, was filedNov 15, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+859 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 23, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 14, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 14, 2019High confidence

This family

Application 11/230,694Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,114,183In force
no later than Oct 2028
no later than Oct 2028
US 7,582,130In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 8,231,752Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
Application PCT/US2007/066640PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,959,714this patent
Jun 2019
Jun 2019
US 7,828,869Term ended
Nov 2026
Nov 2026
Application PCT/US2008/073107PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 11 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 14, 2008
Reel 20358, frame 849
Smith, Guillermo A.; Parikh, Chirag D.; Ng, Kwok-lam; Zoch, Roger L.; Alonzo, Jim L.; Schwandt, Brian W.; Schelkopf, J. Bruce; Verdegan, Barry M.; Schmitz, Kelly R.Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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