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Treating a Bacteria-Induced Gastric Disorder with a Mixture Having Pomegranate and Hydrogen Peroxide

US 8,722,116 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 13, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 25, 2010 as application 12/868,634 · Granted May 13, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 13, 2022
2008 2028
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2008
No longer in force
May 13, 2022
Granted
May 13, 2014
Term would have run to
Dec 23, 2028
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.
14
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 Dec 23, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Dec 23, 2008, when application 12/317,638, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 25, 2010)Dec 23, 2028High 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 events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 13, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 13, 2022High confidence

This family

US 8,734,867In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
US 8,343,552In force
Nov 2029
Nov 2029
US 8,722,116this patent
May 2022
May 2022
US 8,586,110In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
Application 14/027,228Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 14/027,235Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 14/178,459Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,636,361In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
8 of 14 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
Nov 12, 2010
Reel 25356, frame 260
Huang, Alexander L; Wu, GinMetaactive, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 20, 2022
Reel 61733, frame 245
Liveleaf, Inc.Liveleaf, Inc.Change of Address
Oct 24, 2022
Reel 61506, frame 296
Liveleaf, Inc.Liveleaf Holdings LLC.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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