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Direct Write and Additive Manufacturing Processes

US 8,177,348 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 15, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 28, 2008 as application 12/226,825 · Granted May 15, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 852 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 15, 2024
2008 2030
Clock starts
May 30, 2008
No longer in force
May 15, 2024
Granted
May 15, 2012
Term would have run to
Sep 29, 2030
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
852
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.
52
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 Sep 29, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 852 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 May 30, 2008, when application PCT/GB2008/050390, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2008)May 30, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+852 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 29, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 15, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 15, 2024High confidence

This family

Application 12/374,470Abandoned
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Application 11/547,773Abandoned
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Application 11/547,794Abandoned
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US 8,466,848Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
US 8,076,591Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2015
Dec 2015
US 7,894,306In force
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
US 8,177,348this patent
May 2024
May 2024
US 7,986,398In force
Feb 2029
Feb 2029
8 of 52 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
Oct 28, 2008
Reel 21786, frame 963
Sidhu, Jagjit; McDonald, Jennifer LauraBAE Systems, PLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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