Compostable single-cup brew lid

US 9,321,240 Surrendered on reissue

Overview Sources & methods

Surrendered on reissue Dec 25, 2018 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Dec 25, 2018 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE47,175.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.

Filed Aug 1, 2013 as application 13/956,681 · Granted Apr 26, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 254 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Surrendered Dec 25, 2018

2013 2034

Clock starts
Aug 1, 2013

No longer in force
Dec 25, 2018

Granted
Apr 26, 2016

Term would have run to
Apr 12, 2034

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

254

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

Not on record

Maintenance fees

USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.

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 Aug 1, 2013, when this application, 13/956,681, was filed	Aug 1, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+254 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 12, 2034	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	No fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse	no change	Medium confidence
Reissue	US RE47,175 issued Dec 25, 2018, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Dec 25, 2018	High confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Dec 25, 2018	From the USPTO record

Sources

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

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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

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Compostable single-cup brew lid

Surrendered on reissue Dec 25, 2018 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ends Aug 1, 2033

How we calculated this date

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