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Optical Touch Screen Systems Using Reflected Light

US 9,213,443 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 15, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Neonode Inc.
Filed Apr 15, 2010 as application 12/760,567 · Granted Dec 15, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 804 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 15, 2019
2002 2026
Clock starts
Nov 4, 2002
No longer in force
Dec 15, 2019
Granted
Dec 15, 2015
Term would have run to
Jan 16, 2025
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
804
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 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.
104
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 Jan 16, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 804 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 4, 2002, when application PCT/SE2002/002000, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 15, 2010)Nov 4, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+804 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 16, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 15, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 15, 2019High confidence

This family

US 8,095,879Term ended
Apr 2026
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US 7,880,732Term ended
Nov 2022
Nov 2022
US 8,339,379Term ended
Jun 2024
Jun 2024
US 9,164,654Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2019
Oct 2019
US 8,471,830In force
Jul 2029
Jul 2029
Application PCT/US2010/023429PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,213,443this patent
Dec 2019
Dec 2019
Application 12/760,568Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 104 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 20, 2010
Reel 25164, frame 713
Goertz, Magnus; Eriksson, Thomas; Shain, JosephNeonode Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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