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Methods and Devices for Utilizing Bondable Materials

US 9,439,642 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Sep 13, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by P Tech, LLC
Filed Feb 24, 2010 as application 12/711,540 · Granted Sep 13, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 13, 2024
2006 2026
Clock starts
May 3, 2006
No longer in force
Sep 13, 2024
Granted
Sep 13, 2016
Term would have run to
May 11, 2026
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
8
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
23
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 May 11, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 8 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 May 3, 2006, when application 11/416,618, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2010)May 3, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 11, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 13, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 13, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,967,820In force
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Oct 2030
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Application PCT/US2007/061730PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,610,073In force
Sep 2028
Sep 2028
Application PCT/US2008/057948PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,496,657In force
May 2029
May 2029
US 9,439,642this patent
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
US 9,173,650Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
8 of 23 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, 2010
Reel 24327, frame 869
Bonutti, Peter M.; Cremens, Matthew J.; Beyers, Justin E.P Tech, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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