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Polymer Composite Film with Barrier Functionality

US 8,372,417 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 12, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jul 17, 2008 as application 12/175,276 · Granted Feb 12, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 966 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 12, 2025
2008 2031
Clock starts
Jul 17, 2008
No longer in force
Feb 12, 2025
Granted
Feb 12, 2013
Term would have run to
Mar 10, 2031
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
966
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
5
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 Mar 10, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 966 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jul 17, 2008, when this application, 12/175,276, was filedJul 17, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+966 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 10, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 12, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 12, 2025Medium confidence

This family

US 8,372,417this patent
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
US 8,383,549In force
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
Application 13/738,879Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 13/738,852Abandoned
not computed
not computed
4 of 5 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 7, 2015
Reel 37221, frame 287
Bayer Innovation GmbHImaflex, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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.

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