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Catalyst with an Ion-Modified Binder

US 8,105,969 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 31, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 29, 2008 as application 12/345,593 · Granted Jan 31, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 31, 2024
2008 2029
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2008
No longer in force
Jan 31, 2024
Granted
Jan 31, 2012
Term would have run to
Jul 10, 2029
base term patent term adjustment 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
193
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
8
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 Jul 10, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 193 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 Dec 29, 2008, when this application, 12/345,593, was filedDec 29, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 10, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 31, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 31, 2024High confidence

This family

US 8,105,969this patent
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Application PCT/US2009/068899PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,912,109In force
Jul 2029
Jul 2029
Application PCT/US2012/037699PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 13/957,106Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,022,710Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2026
Jul 2026
US 10,369,552In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
7 of 8 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
Dec 29, 2008
Reel 23262, frame 688
Pelati, Joseph E.; Rives, TaylorFina Technology, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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