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Electrical Connector Having Terminal Portions in Specific Arrangement and a Grounding Plate for Excellent High-Frequency Characteristics

US 8,684,769 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 1, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 24, 2012 as application 13/479,289 · Granted Apr 1, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 72 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 1, 2022
2012 2032
Clock starts
May 24, 2012
No longer in force
Apr 1, 2022
Granted
Apr 1, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 4, 2032
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
72
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.
4
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Its term would have run to Aug 4, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 72 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 24, 2012, when this application, 13/479,289, was filedMay 24, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+72 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 4, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 1, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 1, 2022High confidence

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US 9,281,625Lapsed on the fee record
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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
May 24, 2012
Reel 28261, frame 431
Kao, Chien-ping; Little, Terrance F.; Yang, An-jen; Phan, Duong; Hsu, Kuo-chun; Wu, Ming-chuanHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 29, 2015
Reel 34836, frame 753
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Foxconn Interconnect Technology LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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