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Driving Circuit of a Liquid Crystal Display Panel

US RE48,706 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 23, 2022 on the fee record · Low confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Reissue of US 7,667,245, which was surrendered when this reissue was granted; its term and maintenance fees continue here.

Held by Nytell Software LLC
Filed Jul 9, 2015 as application 14/795,777 · Granted Aug 24, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 23, 2022
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2005
No longer in force
Feb 23, 2022
Granted
Aug 24, 2021
Term would have run to
Aug 24, 2025
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 the original patent's grant (Feb 23, 2010). This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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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 filingClock starts Aug 24, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jul 9, 2015)Aug 24, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA reissue: its term follows the original patent's, with the original's term adjustmentfollows the original patentMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNo term adjustment record on a grant after 2005, so none is addedno changeMedium confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; USPTO granted the reissue after this fee's grace period ended, which shows the patent was alive, so no lapse is taken; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"lapsed Feb 23, 2022Low confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 23, 2022Low confidence

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