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Draft Tube Sequencing for an Agricultural Tillage Implement

US 9,596,799 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 21, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 30, 2014 as application 14/528,535 · Granted Mar 21, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 308 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 21, 2021
2014 2035
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2014
No longer in force
Mar 21, 2021
Granted
Mar 21, 2017
Term would have run to
Sep 3, 2035
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
308
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.
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 Sep 3, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 308 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 30, 2014, when this application, 14/528,535, was filedOct 30, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+308 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 3, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 21, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 21, 2021High confidence

This family

Application 61/914,686Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,516,798In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 9,554,497In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
US 9,706,699Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 9,596,799this patent
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 9,609,799In force
no later than Dec 2034
no later than Dec 2034
US 10,028,423In force
Apr 2035
Apr 2035
US 9,986,674In force
Feb 2035
Feb 2035
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
Oct 30, 2014
Reel 34073, frame 489
Sudbrink, Matthew R.; Knobloch, Dean A.CNH Industrial America LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2018
Reel 48101, frame 19
CNH Industrial America LLCBlue Leaf I.P., Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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