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US 8,522,475 Surrendered on reissue
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Surrendered on reissue Nov 16, 2021 · From the USPTO record

Surrendered on reissue Nov 16, 2021 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE48,817.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Sep 30, 2005 as application 11/239,344 · Granted Sep 3, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 2194 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Nov 16, 2021
2003 2029
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2003
No longer in force
Nov 16, 2021
Granted
Sep 3, 2013
Term would have run to
Sep 28, 2029
base term patent term adjustment 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
2,194
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
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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 filingClock starts Sep 26, 2003, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 30, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 26, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+2194 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 28, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holdsno changeMedium confidence
ReissueUS RE48,817 issued Nov 16, 2021, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)surrendered Nov 16, 2021High confidence
Surrendered on reissueThe steps above, in orderNov 16, 2021From the USPTO record

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