Lapsed Aug 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Primapak, LLC

Filed Apr 11, 2014 as application 14/251,515 · Granted Aug 29, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Aug 29, 2025

2013 2033

Clock starts
Oct 25, 2013

No longer in force
Aug 29, 2025

Granted
Aug 29, 2017

Term would have run to
Oct 25, 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.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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.

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 Oct 25, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Oct 25, 2013, when application 14/064,108, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 11, 2014)	Oct 25, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Aug 29, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 29, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 9,850,036	In force no later than May 2035	no later than May 2035
US 10,207,850	In force Mar 2034	Mar 2034
US 10,399,746	In force Oct 2033	Oct 2033
US 9,745,104	this patent Aug 2025	Aug 2025
US 10,532,855	In force Oct 2033	Oct 2033
US 11,267,632	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026	Mar 2026
US 11,447,299	Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026	Sep 2026

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.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Jul 10, 2017 Reel 42945, frame 516	Sanfilippo, James J.; Sanfilippo, John E.; Skaggs, Jeanne M.; Soria, Francisco Javier; Radenovic, Milorad; Wyslotsky, Bohdan; Georgelos, Paul; Montefusco, Pat; Speer, Roy; Forowycz, Roman	Clear Lam Packaging, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 9, 2017 Reel 43502, frame 615	Clear Lam Packaging, Inc.	Primapak, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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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