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For US Patent 8368201, a detailed analysis of its patent term, related applications, and expiration date is provided below, based on the authoritative patent text and general patent law principles. Specific Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) and Patent Term Extension (PTE) amounts are not directly calculable from the provided search snippets, but the projected expiration date aligns with the patent's earliest priority claims.

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is additional time added to the term of a patent to compensate for certain administrative delays by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during the patent prosecution process. While the exact number of PTA days for US8368201 is not explicitly stated in the provided text or readily available through the current search capabilities, the "Anticipated expiration" date listed as 2023-01-28 suggests that any PTA, if granted, was either factored into this date or was negligible, aligning closely with the 20-year term from its earliest effective filing date.

Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Extension (PTE) is available for patents claiming products (e.g., human drugs, food additives, medical devices) that require regulatory approval prior to commercial sale, aiming to restore patent term lost during the regulatory review period. Given that US8368201 is titled "Method for embedding a component in a base" and describes a manufacturing process for electronic modules, it does not fall within the categories typically eligible for PTE. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that this patent received any PTE.

Continuation Applications

US8368201 is identified as a continuation application. The patent text explicitly states:

• This application (US13/185,165, which matured into US8368201B2) is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 11/878,557, filed on Jul. 25, 2007 (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,989,944).
• Application Ser. No. 11/878,557 is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/502,336, filed on Sep. 23, 2004 (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,294,529).

Divisional Applications

The provided patent text does not explicitly mention any divisional applications for US8368201. Divisional applications are a type of continuing application that allows an applicant to pursue claims to a different invention disclosed in an earlier filed application.

Related Family Members

The patent belongs to a family of related applications, all sharing the same priority date. The family includes the following US applications, as listed in the "Family Applications" section of the provided patent data:

• US10/502,336 (US7294529B2)
  • Priority Date: 2002-01-31
  • Filing Date: 2003-01-28
• US11/797,609 (US7732909B2)
  • Priority Date: 2002-01-31
  • Filing Date: 2007-05-04
• US11/878,557 (US7989944B2)
  • Priority Date: 2002-01-31
  • Filing Date: 2007-07-25
• US13/185,165 (US8368201B2 - the subject patent)
  • Priority Date: 2002-01-31
  • Filing Date: 2011-07-18

The earliest priority claim for this patent family is traced back to an international application, PCT/F103/00065, with a priority date of January 31, 2002, and a filing date of January 28, 2003.

Projected Expiration Date

For utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, the patent term generally expires 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application, or of an earlier application to which it claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §§ 120, 121, or 365(c). In the case of US8368201, the earliest effective filing date from which the 20-year term is measured is the filing date of the PCT/F103/00065 application, which is January 28, 2003.

Therefore, the calculated statutory expiration date, prior to any adjustments, would be January 28, 2023.

The Google Patents listing for US8368201 shows "Anticipated expiration 2023-01-28" and a "Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion...): Expired - Fee Related". This precisely matches the 20-year term from the earliest effective filing date, indicating that the patent term concluded on this date. The "Expired - Fee Related" status suggests that the patent lapsed due to failure to pay maintenance fees rather than reaching its full statutory term naturally, though the expiration date itself aligns with the statutory calculation.