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Anti-Fog Refrigeration Door and Method of Making the Same

US 7,891,154 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Feb 22, 2019 on the fee record · Medium confidence

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

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 4, 2006 as application 11/396,914 · Granted Feb 22, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 22, 2019
2005 2026
Clock starts
Sep 20, 2005
No longer in force
Feb 22, 2019
Granted
Feb 22, 2011
Term would have run to
Sep 20, 2025
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.
44
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 Sep 20, 2025: 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 Sep 20, 2005, when application 11/229,835, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 20, 2025High 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 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 22, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 22, 2019Medium confidence

This family

US 7,107,729Term ended
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
US 6,761,201Term ended
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
US 7,891,153Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2019
Feb 2019
US 7,316,759Term ended
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Application 11/013,700Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,281,527Term ended
no later than Nov 2022
no later than Nov 2022
Application 11/303,992Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,891,154this patent
Feb 2019
Feb 2019
8 of 44 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 4, 2006
Reel 18155, frame 531
Cording, Christopher R.Afg Industries, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 14, 2007
Reel 20261, frame 577
Afg Industries, Inc.AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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