Lapsed Dec 23, 2022 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 4, 2030
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Eads Deutschland GmbH and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
Filed Jan 24, 2013 as application 13/749,277 · Granted Dec 23, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 23, 2022
2010
2030
Clock starts
May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010
No longer in force
Dec 23, 2022
Dec 23, 2022
Granted
Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014
Term would have run to
Sep 30, 2030
Sep 30, 2030
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
149
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.
9
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 Sep 30, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 149 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts May 4, 2010, when application PCT/EP2010/056031, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 24, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 4, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +149 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 23, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 23, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,004,395 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,870,114 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,194,285 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2019 | Nov 2019 |
| US 8,916,267 | this patent Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
4 of 9 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Wachinger, Georg; Bauer, Monika; Langkabel, Eike; Concord, Arnaud; Luinge, Hans | Eads Deutschland GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Wachinger, Georg; Bauer, Monika; Langkabel, Eike; Concord, Arnaud; Luinge, Hans | Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2013 Reel 29837, frame 10 | Bauer, Monika; Concord, Arnaud; Langkabel, Eike; Luinge, Hans; Wachinger, Georg | Eads Deutschland GmbH; Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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