Term ended Jan 24, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 15, 2023
Held by Anchor Packaging
Filed Aug 15, 2003 as application 10/641,671 · Granted Jul 24, 2007
Base term plus 162 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 24, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Aug 15, 2003
Aug 15, 2003
Term ended
Jan 24, 2024
Jan 24, 2024
Granted
Jul 24, 2007
Jul 24, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
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
162
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
11
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 162 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 15, 2003, when this application, 10/641,671, was filed | Aug 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +162 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 24, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 24, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,786,351 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 7,246,714 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US D536,992 | Term ended Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 7,243,813 | Term ended no later than Nov 2021 | no later than Nov 2021 |
| US 7,549,551 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 7,685,677 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 9,278,787 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,691,301 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
8 of 11 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2003 Reel 14418, frame 854 | Garg, Satya; Riales, Brent; Smith, David; Cimmerer, Tim | Anchor Packaging | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 7, 2004 Reel 14609, frame 82 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Interest |
| May 30, 2019 Reel 49330, frame 687 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 11, 2019 Reel 49724, frame 477 | Anchor Packaging, Inc. | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Declaration of Conversion to LLC |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49801, frame 700 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse, AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49803, frame 277 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 11, 2019 Reel 50710, frame 139 | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Lien Security Interest by Removal of Application Nos: 29/633,906 29/629,808, 29/629,900 and 29/629,818 Previously Recorded at Reel: 149801 Frame: 0700. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 4, 2020 Reel 54587, frame 298 | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Collateral Agent | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 16, 2025 Reel 74117, frame 907 | UBS AG, Stamford Branch, Collateral Agent (as Successor in Interest to Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch) | Anchor Packaging, LLC | Release of First Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement, Recorded on July 18, 2019 at Reel 49801 Frame 0700 |
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Note
The 162 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
99
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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