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Method and device for the optical spectroscopic identification of cervical cancer

US 9,198,579 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 1, 2019 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Remicalm, LLC · find this owner
Filed May 11, 2012 as application 13/469,269 · Granted Dec 1, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 206 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 1, 2019
2008 2029
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2008
No longer in force
Dec 1, 2019
Granted
Dec 1, 2015
Term would have run to
Mar 19, 2029
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
206
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.

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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 filingClock starts Aug 25, 2008, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed May 11, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 25, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+206 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 19, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 1, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 1, 2019From the USPTO record

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