Term ended Aug 25, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 25, 2024
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,803,865), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Dow Global Technologies LLC
Filed Aug 23, 2010 as application 12/861,456 · Granted Nov 8, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 25, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2004
Aug 25, 2004
Term ended
Aug 25, 2024
Aug 25, 2024
Granted
Nov 8, 2011
Nov 8, 2011
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,803,865, to Aug 25, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
31
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Aug 25, 2004, when application 10/925,693, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 23, 2010) | Aug 25, 2024 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,803,865) | resolves to Aug 25, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium 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 | Aug 25, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,803,865 | In force no later than Sep 2027 | no later than Sep 2027 |
| US 7,763,676 | Term ended no later than Mar 2025 | no later than Mar 2025 |
| US 7,947,776 | Term ended no later than Sep 2026 | no later than Sep 2026 |
| US 8,063,128 | Term ended no later than Aug 2024 | no later than Aug 2024 |
| US 8,158,711 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,935,755 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 8,053,503 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 8,349,929 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
8 of 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43571, frame 171 | Moncla, Brad M.; Kalinowski, Matthew J.; Speth, Dave; Diehl, Charles; Schmidt, Dale; Maak, Kevin D. | Dow Global Technologies Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43571, frame 224 | Wevers, Ronald | Dow Benelux B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43571, frame 274 | Dow Benelux B.V. | The Dow Chemical Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43571, frame 323 | The Dow Chemical Company | Dow Global Technologies Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43837, frame 129 | Dow Global Technologies Inc. | Dow Global Technologies LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,803,865, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
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.