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Light-Blocking System for a Diagnostic Analyzer

US 9,513,303 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 6, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 14, 2014 as application 14/214,190 · Granted Dec 6, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 6, 2024
2014 2034
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2014
No longer in force
Dec 6, 2024
Granted
Dec 6, 2016
Term would have run to
Mar 14, 2034
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.
30
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 Mar 14, 2034: 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 Mar 14, 2014, when this application, 14/214,190, was filedMar 14, 2034High 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 Dec 6, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 6, 2024High confidence

This family

US 10,867,274In force
Apr 2035
Apr 2035
Application PCT/US2012/069434PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,134,203Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Application PCT/US2012/071850PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,993,820In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
US 9,632,103Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
US 9,513,303this patent
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Application 14/214,210Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 30 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
Jun 9, 2014
Reel 33061, frame 415
Donohue, Joseph P.Abbott LaboratoriesAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 30, 2018
Reel 45929, frame 535
Johnson, Ryan PAbbott LaboratoriesAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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