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Air-Conditioning Installation, Especially for Motor Vehicles

US 7,228,705 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jun 12, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Daimler AG
Filed Jan 8, 2006 as application 10/539,232 · Granted Jun 12, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 12, 2019
2003 2026
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2003
No longer in force
Jun 12, 2019
Granted
Jun 12, 2007
Term would have run to
Nov 8, 2023
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.
2 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.
61
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 Nov 8, 2023: 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 Nov 8, 2003, when application PCT/EP2003/012487, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 8, 2006)Nov 8, 2023High 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 events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 12, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 12, 2019High confidence

This family

Application 10/543,547Abandoned
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US 7,431,563Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
Application 11/314,588Abandoned
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US 7,228,705this patent
Jun 2019
Jun 2019
US 7,290,957Term ended
Feb 2026
Feb 2026
Application 11/393,203Abandoned
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Application 11/414,573Abandoned
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Application 11/440,476Abandoned
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8 of 61 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
Aug 17, 2006
Reel 18128, frame 523
Harm, KlausDaimlerchrysler AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 20, 2008
Reel 21127, frame 372
Daimlerchrysler AGDaimler AGChange of Name

Sources

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