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Methods and Materials Useful for Chip Stacking, Chip and Wafer Bonding

US 8,120,168 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 21, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 20, 2007 as application 11/903,190 · Granted Feb 21, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 56 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 21, 2024
2007 2027
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2007
No longer in force
Feb 21, 2024
Granted
Feb 21, 2012
Term would have run to
May 16, 2027
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
56
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.
4
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 May 16, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 56 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 21, 2007, when application 11/726,354, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 20, 2007)Mar 21, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+56 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 16, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 21, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 21, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,932,161In force
Oct 2027
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US 8,120,168this patent
Feb 2024
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US 8,816,485In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 9,263,416In force
Mar 2027
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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 22, 2008
Reel 20394, frame 922
Apanius, Christopher; Shick, Robert A.; Ng, Hendra; Bell, Andrew; Zhang, Wei; Neal, Phillip S.Promerus LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 5, 2012
Reel 29409, frame 440
Promerus LLCSumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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