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US 7,431,563 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 7, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Daimler AG
Filed Nov 28, 2005 as application 10/535,151 · Granted Oct 7, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 7, 2020
2003 2026
Clock starts
Oct 16, 2003
No longer in force
Oct 7, 2020
Granted
Oct 7, 2008
Term would have run to
Jun 4, 2024
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
232
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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 Jun 4, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 232 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 16, 2003, when application PCT/EP2003/011485, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 28, 2005)Oct 16, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+232 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 4, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 7, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 7, 2020High confidence

This family

Application 10/543,547Abandoned
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US 7,431,563this patent
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
Application 11/314,588Abandoned
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US 7,228,705Lapsed on the fee record
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
May 4, 2006
Reel 17583, frame 290
Kraemer, Johann; Schmidt, Erwin; Sumser, SiegfriedDaimlerchrysler AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 5, 2008
Reel 21053, frame 466
Daimlerchrysler AGDaimler AGChange of Name

Sources

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