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Coated Steel Strips, Coated Stamped Products and Methods

US 10,577,674 Term ended
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Term ended Oct 30, 2026 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed May 16, 2019 as application 16/413,729 · Granted Mar 3, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 30, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2006
Term ended
Oct 30, 2026
Granted
Mar 3, 2020
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.
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Maintenance fees paid
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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, 2006, when application PCT/IB2006/004019, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 16, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 30, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 30, 2026Medium confidence

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8 of 14 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
Dec 3, 2019
Reel 51163, frame 977
Spehner, DominiqueArcelormittal FranceAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 3, 2019
Reel 51170, frame 556
Arcelormittal FranceArcelormittalAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 3, 2019
Reel 51164, frame 159
Drillet, Pascal; Kefferstein, RonaldArcelormittalAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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