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MPEG picture data recording apparatus, MPEG picture data recording method, MPEG picture data recording medium, MPEG picture data generating apparatus, MPEG picture data reproducing apparatus, and MPEG picture data reproducing method

US 8,131,135 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 6, 2024 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Victor Company of Japan, Limited · find this owner
Filed Sep 11, 2007 as application 11/898,251 · Granted Mar 6, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 6, 2024
2001 2026
Clock starts
Sep 25, 2001
No longer in force
Mar 6, 2024
Granted
Mar 6, 2012
Term would have run to
Jan 18, 2025
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
1,211
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.

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Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 25, 2001, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 11, 2007)Sep 25, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1211 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 18, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 6, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 6, 2024From the USPTO record

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