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Oil-Field Viscosity Breaker Method Utilizing a Peracid

US 8,575,075 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 5, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 22, 2010 as application 12/709,587 · Granted Nov 5, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 237 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
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Lapsed Nov 5, 2021
2010 2030
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2010
No longer in force
Nov 5, 2021
Granted
Nov 5, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 17, 2030
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
237
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,018,142, to Oct 17, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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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.
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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 Oct 17, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 237 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Feb 22, 2010, when this application, 12/709,587, was filedFeb 22, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+237 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 17, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,018,142)resolves to Oct 17, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 5, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 5, 2021High confidence

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Application PCT/US2007/088409PCT application
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US 9,351,488Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,018,142Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,575,075this patent
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Application 61/726,297Provisional application
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US 8,865,066Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,086,743Lapsed on the fee record
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8 of 24 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
Mar 9, 2010
Reel 24049, frame 42
Huang, Shurong; Pfeffer, Henry A.; Rovison, JR., John M.FMC CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 3, 2014
Reel 32379, frame 931
Peroxychem LLCMacquarie US Trading LLCShort Form Patent Security Agreement
Mar 31, 2014
Reel 32558, frame 681
FMC CorporationPeroxychem LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 21, 2015
Reel 36847, frame 594
Peroxychem LLCBank of America, N.A., as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Nov 4, 2015
Reel 36953, frame 766
Macquarie US Trading LLC, as Collateral AgentPeroxychem LLCRelease of Security Interest
Oct 2, 2019
Reel 50605, frame 305
Peroxychem LLCBarclays Bank PLC, as Administrative AgentSecurity Interest
Oct 2, 2019
Reel 50606, frame 329
Bank of America, N.A., as AgentPeroxychem LLCRelease of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2020
Reel 51777, frame 957
Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative AgentPeroxychem LLCRelease of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at R/F 050605/0305
Mar 17, 2021
Reel 55623, frame 19
Peroxychem LLCEvonik Operations GmbHAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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