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Nonaqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive for medicinal tape preparation for percutaneous absorption, medicinal tape preparation for percutaneous absorption, and process for producing the same

US 8,962,012 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 24, 2023 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Nipro Patch Co., Ltd. · find this owner
Filed Jan 25, 2013 as application 13/750,361 · Granted Feb 24, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 25 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 24, 2023
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jun 17, 2004
No longer in force
Feb 24, 2023
Granted
Feb 24, 2015
Term would have run to
Jul 12, 2024
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
25
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 Jun 17, 2004, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 17, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+25 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 12, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 24, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 24, 2023From the USPTO record

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