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Expansion Joint System

US 9,963,872 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 8, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jun 4, 2015 as application 14/730,896 · Granted May 8, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 8, 2022
2013 2033
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2013
No longer in force
May 8, 2022
Granted
May 8, 2018
Term would have run to
Nov 15, 2033
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,068,297, to Nov 15, 2033. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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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

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 15, 2013, when application 14/080,960, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 4, 2015)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 9,068,297)resolves to Nov 15, 2033, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 8, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 8, 2022High confidence

This family

Application 61/727,351Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,068,297Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2023
Jun 2023
US 9,963,872this patent
May 2022
May 2022
US 10,544,582In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
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
Aug 19, 2015
Reel 36363, frame 58
Hensley, Lester; Witherspoon, WilliamEmseal Joint Systems Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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