Underwater Pelletizer

US 8,939,744 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Jan 27, 2019 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Nordson Corporation

Filed Dec 27, 2011 as application 13/338,029 · Granted Jan 27, 2015

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jan 27, 2019

2007 2028

Clock starts
Jun 18, 2007

No longer in force
Jan 27, 2019

Granted
Jan 27, 2015

Term would have run to
Apr 27, 2028

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

314

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 8,083,509, to Apr 27, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

0 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.

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 Jun 18, 2007, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Dec 27, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jun 18, 2027	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	+314 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 27, 2028	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,083,509)	resolves to Apr 27, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jan 27, 2019	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jan 27, 2019	Medium confidence

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Underwater Pelletizer

Lapsed Jan 27, 2019 on the fee record · Medium confidence

20-year base term ends Jun 18, 2027

How we calculated this date

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