On Jul 30, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
On 30 Jul, 2014, at 13:53 , ian007%mac.com@localhost wrote:On Jul 30, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Dennis Ferguson wrote:5,608,893 5,727,209 6,219,690 6,886,162[...]Status: Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362[...]Status: Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362[...]Status: Patent Expired Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362[...]Status: Patent Expired Due to NonPayment of Maintenance Fees Under 37 CFR 1.362Ah, I left one off the list. The fifth one, 5,442,758, is the old one which should have died on its own in any case. Dennis Ferguson
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U.S. Patent No. 5,442,758 was issued on August 15, 1995. Its application was filed July 19, 1993. Utility patents issuing from applications that were pending on June 8, 1995 (based on its actual filing date) have a term measured by the longer of 17 years from the date of issue or 20 years from the date of U.S. filing (of the earliest non-provisional application in its chain of parentage). See e.g., the Manual for Patent Examination Procedure (MPEP), section 2701, or 35 U.S.C. 154. Accordingly, it looks like this patent (No.
5,442,758) expired July 19, 2013.
Regards,
Ian Fink