Lapsed Sep 18, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 22, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by SHPP Global Technologies B.V.
Filed Nov 22, 2006 as application 11/562,628 · Granted Sep 18, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 939 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 18, 2024
2006
2029
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2006
Nov 22, 2006
No longer in force
Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024
Granted
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012
Term would have run to
Jun 18, 2029
Jun 18, 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
939
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.
7
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 Jun 18, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 939 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 22, 2006, when this application, 11/562,628, was filed | Nov 22, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +939 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 18, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 18, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 18, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,268,934 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,399,573 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| Application PCT/US2007/075812 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/075809 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 12/099,814 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,492,474 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 9,096,760 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2007 Reel 19014, frame 246 | Gallucci, Robert Russell; Mullen, Tara; Odle, Roy; Sheth, Kapil Chandrakant; White, James M. | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 1, 2008 Reel 20985, frame 551 | General Electric Company | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 18, 2008 Reel 21423, frame 1 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Mar 17, 2014 Reel 32459, frame 798 | Citibank, N.a. | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 6, 2016 Reel 38883, frame 816 | SABIC Innovative Plastics IP B.V. | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | Change of Name |
| Nov 26, 2020 Reel 54528, frame 467 | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | SHPP Global Technologies B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 680 | SABIC Global Technologies B.V. | SHPP Global Technologies B.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove the Application Number 15039474 Previously Recorded at Reel: 054528 Frame: 0467. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Note
The 939 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
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