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Three-Dimensional Printer Tool Systems

US 9,238,331 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 19, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 23, 2014 as application 14/580,377 · Granted Jan 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 19, 2024
2013 2033
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2013
No longer in force
Jan 19, 2024
Granted
Jan 19, 2016
Term would have run to
Nov 15, 2033
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,085,109, to Nov 15, 2033. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
11
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 Nov 15, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 15, 2013, when application 14/081,922, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2014)Nov 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,085,109)resolves to Nov 15, 2033, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 19, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 19, 2024High confidence

This family

US 9,085,109In force
Dec 2033
Dec 2033
Application PCT/US2014/064813PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,481,132In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 9,238,331this patent
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
US 9,469,072In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 10,214,004In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 10,525,691Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2024
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US 10,525,692Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
8 of 11 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
Mar 10, 2015
Reel 35122, frame 631
Schmehl, Peter Joseph; Kemperle, Aljosa; Schmehl, Stewart; Tuzman, David R.Makerbot Industries, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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