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Blow Molded Polyester Container With An Over-Molded Thermoplastic Layer

US 8,734,923 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed May 27, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 4, 2008 as application 12/062,999 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 923 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 27, 2022
2006 2028
Clock starts
Feb 17, 2006
No longer in force
May 27, 2022
Granted
May 27, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 28, 2028
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
923
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.
5
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 Aug 28, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 923 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 Feb 17, 2006, when application 11/307,700, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2008)Feb 17, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+923 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 28, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 27, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 27, 2022High confidence

This family

US 8,192,812In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 8,734,923this patent
May 2022
May 2022
Application 12/099,404Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2009/039628PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2009/039910PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
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
Jun 3, 2008
Reel 21044, frame 411
Shi, YuColgate-Palmolive CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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