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Process for the manufacturing of decorative boards

US 8,663,747 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 4, 2022 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Pergo (Europe) AB · find this owner
Filed Jul 21, 2011 as application 13/188,236 · Granted Mar 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 4, 2022
2002 2026
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2002
No longer in force
Mar 4, 2022
Granted
Mar 4, 2014
Term would have run to
May 4, 2022
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
52
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 13, 2002, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jul 21, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 13, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+52 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 4, 2022High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 4, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 4, 2022From the USPTO record

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