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US 8,466,848 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 18, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jan 31, 2007 as application 11/659,125 · Granted Jun 18, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1339 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 18, 2021
2006 2030
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2006
No longer in force
Jun 18, 2021
Granted
Jun 18, 2013
Term would have run to
Jul 16, 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
1,339
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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 Jul 16, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1339 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 Nov 15, 2006, when application PCT/GB0006/050389, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 31, 2007)Nov 15, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1339 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 16, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 18, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 18, 2021High 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 8,466,848this patent
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 8,177,348Lapsed on the fee record
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
Jan 31, 2007
Reel 18874, frame 166
Guy, Ronald; Pirollo, BrunoBAE Systems PLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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