Raised Container Lid or Beverage Preparation and Beverage Bag Retention

US 8,181,817 Lapsed on the fee record

Overview Sources & methods

Lapsed May 22, 2016 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Mighty Leaf Tea

Filed Oct 11, 2002 as application 10/269,490 · Granted May 22, 2012

Base term plus 566 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Lapsed May 22, 2016

1995 2026

Clock starts
Sep 15, 1995

Term ended
May 22, 2016

Granted
May 22, 2012

base term after the term ends 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

566

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Capped

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,140,510.

None due

Maintenance fees

This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.

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 Sep 15, 1995, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 11, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Sep 15, 2015	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+566 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 3, 2017	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,140,510)	capped to Sep 15, 2015	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	No maintenance fee can end the term early	lapsed May 22, 2016	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 22, 2016	Medium confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

Raised Container Lid or Beverage Preparation and Beverage Bag Retention

Lapsed May 22, 2016 on the fee record · Medium confidence

20-year base term ended Sep 15, 2015

How we calculated this date

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