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High Density and Bandwidth Fiber Optic Apparatuses and Related Equipment and Methods

US 9,020,320 In force
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Term ends Nov 25, 2028 · Low confidence

Filed Jan 22, 2013 as application 13/746,938 · Granted Apr 28, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Nov 25, 2008
Term ends
Nov 25, 2028
Granted
Apr 28, 2015
base term 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.
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.
27
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 25, 2008, when application 12/323,415, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 22, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Nov 25, 2028High 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 eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holdsIn forceMedium confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 25, 2028Low confidence

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8 of 27 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
Sep 23, 2016
Reel 39844, frame 482
Corning Cable Systems LLCCorning Optical Communications LLCChange of Name
Feb 6, 2020
Reel 51741, frame 214
Cooke, Terry L.; Dean, David L., JR.; Staber, Harley J.; Strause, Kevin L.; Ugolini, Alan W.Corning Cable Systems LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 6, 2020
Reel 51741, frame 397
Corning Cable Systems LLCCorning Optical Communications LLCChange of Name

Sources

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