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Method to Camouflage an Antenna

US 6,456,255 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 24, 2010 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 21, 2001 as application 09/790,170 · Granted Sep 24, 2002
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 24, 2010
2001 2026
Clock starts
Feb 21, 2001
No longer in force
Sep 24, 2010
Granted
Sep 24, 2002
Term would have run to
Feb 21, 2021
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.
42
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Feb 21, 2021: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 21, 2001, when this application, 09/790,170, was filedFeb 21, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh 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 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 24, 2010High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 24, 2010High confidence

This family

US 6,928,168Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2017
Aug 2017
US 6,456,255this patent
Sep 2010
Sep 2010
US 6,567,393Lapsed on the fee record
May 2011
May 2011
US 6,778,834Term ended
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
US 6,908,389Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,954,443Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2013
Oct 2013
US 6,496,140Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,907,568Term ended
Mar 2023
Mar 2023
8 of 42 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
Jun 7, 2001
Reel 11876, frame 415
Lundahl, NestoriNokia CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 21, 2008
Reel 20550, frame 1
Nokia CorporationNokia Siemens Networks OyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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