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Method and Device for Blow-Molding Containers

US 8,354,054 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 15, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by KHS GmbH
Filed Dec 24, 2008 as application 12/308,821 · Granted Jan 15, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 15, 2025
2007 2027
Clock starts
Jul 5, 2007
No longer in force
Jan 15, 2025
Granted
Jan 15, 2013
Term would have run to
Jul 5, 2027
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
28
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 Jul 5, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 5, 2007, when application PCT/DE2007/001220, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 24, 2008)Jul 5, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 15, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 15, 2025High confidence

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US 8,961,688In force
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US 8,354,054this patent
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US 8,980,162In force
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US 8,167,607Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,545,748In force
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8 of 28 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
Dec 24, 2008
Reel 22058, frame 739
Haesendonckx, Frank; Rasch, Jens-peter; Gernhuber, MatthiasKHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 2, 2013
Reel 30935, frame 993
KHS Corpoplast GmbH & Co. KGKHS Corpoplast GmbHChange of Name
Jul 19, 2022
Reel 60715, frame 640
KHS Corpoplast GmbHKHS GmbHMerger

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