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Method and Apparatus for Dropping a Pump Down Plug or Ball

US 8,651,174 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 17, 2014 (General Electric Capital Corporation).

Term ends Jun 26, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Apr 5, 2011 as application 13/080,397 · Granted Feb 18, 2014
Base term plus 407 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2028
Clock starts
May 16, 2007
Term ends
Jun 26, 2028
Granted
Feb 18, 2014
base term patent term adjustment 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
407
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.
18
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 407 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 May 16, 2007, when application 11/749,591, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2011)May 16, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+407 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 26, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 26, 2028High confidence

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Application PCT/US2011/036659PCT application
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8 of 18 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
Oct 18, 2013
Reel 31431, frame 239
Barbee, Phil; Mire, Michael; Naquin, JoeyGulfstream Services, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 17, 2014
Reel 34013, frame 444
Gulfstream Services, Inc.General Electric Capital Corporation, as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Aug 24, 2015
Reel 36435, frame 614
General Electric Capital Corporation, as the Current and Resigning Administrative AgentAntares Capital LP, as Successor Administrative AgentAssignment of Intellectual Property Security Agreements
Jun 28, 2018
Reel 46459, frame 743
Antares Capital LP, as Transferring Administrative AgentResolute III Debtco LLC, as Successor Administrative AgentAssignment of Intellectual Property Security Agreements
Aug 17, 2018
Reel 46860, frame 353
Resolute III Debtco LLC, as Administrative AgentGulfstream Services, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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