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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2904816, member: 15199&quot;]Maybe PCGS is just waiting to make it a zombie as they are the previous possessor.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From USPatent Office website:</p><p><br /></p><p>Until recently, a patent which expired for failure to pay a maintenance fee could only be revived as unintentionally abandoned within 24 months of the date the maintenance fee was due. While a petition to revive an unavoidably abandoned patent could be made at any time after the patent’s expiration, the “unavoidable” standard was almost impossible to meet.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">Recent changes to Title 35 of the U.S. Code effected by the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012, </span>Pub. L. No. 112-211, 126 Stat. 1527, eliminate the unavoidable standard and remove the 24-month time limit to reinstate an unintentionally abandoned patent. Now, any patent which has expired for failure to pay a maintenance fee can be revived, at any time, upon a statement that the delay in paying the maintenance fee was unintentional. 35 U.S.C. § 41(c)(1). Similarly, any patent application that has gone abandoned for an unintentional failure to file a timely response can be revived at any time. 35 U.S.C. § 27; 37 C.F.R. 1.137.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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