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Reel/Frame 016145/0684

Merger

Recorded: 2004-12-16 Pages: 29
Assignor
BROWN & WILLIAMSON U.S.A., INC.
Executed: 2004-07-30
Assignee
R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY
401 NORTH MAIN STREET, WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, 27102-2990
Covered Properties (197)
Tobacco Product
Patent: 4,616,664 →
Application: 06/244,729 →
Method for Expanding Tobacco with Steam at High Temperature and Velocity
Patent: 4,407,306 →
Application: 06/331,676 →
Cigarettes
Patent: 4,474,192 →
Application: 06/404,067 →
Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,480,982 →
Application: 06/464,277 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 4,662,384 →
Application: 06/506,655 →
Device for Manufacturing a Mouthpiece and Attaching Mouthpieces to Cigarette Tobacco Columns
Patent: 4,527,570 →
Application: 06/541,171 →
Sealed Pneumatic Tobacco Conveying and Treating Apparatus
Patent: 4,528,995 →
Application: 06/541,752 →
Cigarette Having a Mouthpiece
Patent: 4,646,762 →
Application: 06/558,219 →
Filtered Cigarette
Patent: 4,542,754 →
Application: 06/558,220 →
Filtered Cigarette
Patent: 4,557,281 →
Application: 06/558,221 →
Cigarette Having a Mouthpiece
Patent: 4,540,005 →
Application: 06/558,222 →
Cigarette Having a Mouthpiece and Method of Making Same
Patent: 4,620,557 →
Application: 06/558,245 →
Mouthpiece for a Cigarette and a Cigarette Having Same
Patent: 4,550,740 →
Application: 06/558,414 →
Tobacco Treating Process
Patent: 4,528,994 →
Application: 06/562,254 →
Process for Treating Tabacco
Patent: 4,630,619 →
Application: 06/566,750 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,580,584 →
Application: 06/581,516 →
System and Process for Sorting and Opening Packages
Patent: 4,622,875 →
Application: 06/593,004 →
Tabacco Conditioning Apparatus
Patent: 4,517,992 →
Application: 06/608,842 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,582,072 →
Application: 06/624,433 →
Adapter for a Package Dispensing Machine
Patent: 4,583,657 →
Application: 06/628,105 →
Device for Making Grooves in Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,547,253 →
Application: 06/631,962 →
Device for Making Grooves in Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,517,046 →
Application: 06/631,963 →
Device for Making Grooves in Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,883,449 →
Application: 06/632,081 →
Device for Making Grooves in Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,514,249 →
Application: 06/632,509 →
Apparatus for Making Grooves in Cigarette Filters
Patent: 4,636,183 →
Application: 06/639,759 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,608,999 →
Application: 06/654,421 →
Tobacco Smoke Mouthpiece and Method of Making Same
Patent: 4,617,946 →
Application: 06/670,109 →
Method of Manufacturing a Tobacco Smoke Filter
Patent: 4,655,736 →
Application: 06/670,110 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,585,015 →
Application: 06/672,053 →
Cigarette Filter and Method of the Same
Patent: 4,649,943 →
Application: 06/700,565 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,611,607 →
Application: 06/700,584 →
Tobacco Smoke Article Holder and Method Therefor
Patent: 4,627,448 →
Application: 06/705,160 →
Mouthpiece for Tobacco Smoke Article
Patent: 4,681,125 →
Application: 06/708,630 →
Smoking Article Mouthpieces
Patent: 4,677,996 →
Application: 06/746,803 →
Apparatus for Manufacturing a Cigarette Filter Tow
Patent: 4,648,858 →
Application: 06/781,170 →
Package for Cigarettes and the Like
Patent: 4,641,748 →
Application: 06/789,527 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,643,206 →
Application: 06/802,920 →
Tobacco Expansion Process
Patent: 4,760,854 →
Application: 06/803,450 →
Package Group
Patent: 4,669,611 →
Application: 06/830,318 →
Apparatus for Binding Packages Together
Patent: 4,685,993 →
Application: 06/830,401 →
Process for Drying and Expanding Tobacco
Patent: 4,687,007 →
Application: 06/832,300 →
Process for Forming Flavor Compounds in Tobacco
Patent: 4,744,375 →
Application: 06/832,551 →
Process for Treating, Drying and Expanding Tobacco
Patent: 4,677,994 →
Application: 06/832,554 →
Tobacco Treating Process
Patent: 4,706,691 →
Application: 06/851,751 →
Method of Fabricating an All-Tobacco Cigarette Controlling Tar Delivery and an All-Tobacco Cigarette
Patent: 4,726,385 →
Application: 06/861,169 →
Process for Retaining Alkaloids by Treating with Strong Acids Before Drying
Patent: 4,700,722 →
Application: 06/861,897 →
Process for Manufacturing Reconstituted Tobacco
Patent: 4,681,126 →
Application: 06/889,669 →
Process and Apparatus for the Expansion of Tobacco
Patent: 4,791,942 →
Application: 06/892,005 →
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 4,708,150 →
Application: 06/899,590 →
Non-Combustible Simulated Cigarette Device
Patent: 4,765,348 →
Application: 06/940,887 →
Cigarette Package
Patent: 4,733,796 →
Application: 07/051,340 →
Cigarette Package and the Like
Patent: 4,793,478 →
Application: 07/065,546 →
Cigarette Carton with Package Separator and Package Spacer Therefor
Patent: 4,773,531 →
Application: 07/065,547 →
Cigarette Package with Spacer
Patent: 4,771,882 →
Application: 07/065,745 →
Process for Forming Flavor Compounds in Tobacco
Patent: 4,825,884 →
Application: 07/104,144 →
Method of Fabricating an All-Tobacco Cigarette Controlling Tar Delivery and an All-Tobacco Cigarette
Patent: 5,007,439 →
Application: 07/121,840 →
Cigarette Having Circumferential Grooves in the Tobacco Rod
Patent: 4,825,885 →
Application: 07/160,428 →
Adapter for a Package Dispensing Machine
Patent: 4,865,222 →
Application: 07/196,514 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 4,911,184 →
Application: 07/239,914 →
Package for Storing Moisture Laden Articles
Patent: 4,934,524 →
Application: 07/245,609 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 4,924,886 →
Application: 07/273,775 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 4,917,121 →
Application: 07/281,583 →
Smoking Device
Patent: 4,898,191 →
Application: 07/281,584 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,082,008 →
Application: 07/281,591 →
Cigarette
Patent: 4,893,638 →
Application: 07/281,599 →
Package Structure for Storing Articles and a Method and Apparatus for Accomplishing the Same
Patent: 4,912,910 →
Application: 07/300,657 →
Smoking Device
Patent: 5,038,804 →
Application: 07/303,223 →
Simulated Smoking Article
Patent: 4,892,109 →
Application: 07/320,428 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,090,426 →
Application: 07/324,137 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 4,913,169 →
Application: 07/325,330 →
Smoking Device
Patent: 4,961,438 →
Application: 07/331,779 →
Cigarette
Patent: 4,955,397 →
Application: 07/378,351 →
Simulated Smoking Device
Patent: 4,945,931 →
Application: 07/379,831 →
Cigarette Paper
Patent: 5,062,434 →
Application: 07/411,177 →
Moisture Indicating Ink and Package Having Same
Patent: 4,990,284 →
Application: 07/419,797 →
Dye for Coloring Cigarette Paper
Patent: 5,094,253 →
Application: 07/461,152 →
Cigarette and Method of Making Same
Patent: 5,016,656 →
Application: 07/481,925 →
Hopper Appratus
Patent: 4,984,412 →
Application: 07/485,023 →
Water Resistant Paperboard and Method of Making Same
Patent: 5,038,997 →
Application: 07/485,024 →
Smokable Article
Patent: 5,080,114 →
Application: 07/490,889 →
Smokable Article
Patent: 5,135,009 →
Application: 07/490,891 →
Device for Receiving and Transferring Cylindrical Filter Rods from a Mass Flow of Filter Rods Being Conveyed
Patent: 5,209,127 →
Application: 07/493,267 →
Smokable Article
Patent: 5,115,820 →
Application: 07/495,076 →
Smokable Article
Patent: 5,190,060 →
Application: 07/496,840 →
Multiple Compartment Box for Smoking Articles
Patent: 5,074,412 →
Application: 07/542,147 →
Simulated Smoking Article
Patent: 5,080,115 →
Application: 07/554,647 →
Dye for Cigarette Wrapper Paper and Cigarette Having Dyed Wrapper
Patent: 5,101,840 →
Application: 07/565,843 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,060,667 →
Application: 07/568,151 →
Tamper Proof Package
Patent: 5,042,653 →
Application: 07/569,338 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 5,107,865 →
Application: 07/576,817 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,141,004 →
Application: 07/642,956 →
Water Resistant Paperboard and Method of Making Same
Patent: 5,176,795 →
Application: 07/706,615 →
Apparatus for Packing Cigarettes and Other Smoking Materials into Preformed Hinged Lid Packs
Patent: 5,133,170 →
Application: 07/763,856 →
Conveyor System Including Flow Diverter Means
Patent: 5,305,893 →
Application: 07/767,722 →
Method for Improving the Quality of Products Produced in the Cigarette Manufacturing Process
Patent: 5,284,164 →
Application: 07/789,235 →
Fluid Applicator
Patent: 5,129,356 →
Application: 07/793,493 →
Apparatus and Method for Inserting a Spacer Between Two Packs of Cigarettes
Patent: 5,214,901 →
Application: 07/833,268 →
Sterilization Process in the Manufacturing of Snuff
Patent: 5,372,149 →
Application: 07/857,364 →
Method and Apparatus for Detecting and Eliminating Cigarettes with Loose Filter Tips During Cigarette Manufacturing
Patent: 5,232,100 →
Application: 07/869,583 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 5,259,404 →
Application: 07/945,726 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,327,915 →
Application: 07/976,065 →
Apparatus for Filling a Silo with Tobacco and the Like
Patent: 5,324,158 →
Application: 08/020,068 →
System for and Method to Verify Proper Operation of a Particulate Emission Detector
Patent: 5,324,344 →
Application: 08/041,004 →
Apparatus for Agitating Cigarette Filters in a Filter Hopper
Patent: 5,318,201 →
Application: 08/047,710 →
Apparatus for Packaging Loose Leaf Material
Patent: 5,425,215 →
Application: 08/048,987 →
Reconstituted Tobacco Product
Patent: 5,377,698 →
Application: 08/055,736 →
Cigarette Paper Having Reduced Sidestream Properties
Patent: 5,540,242 →
Application: 08/088,516 →
Apparatus for Merging Multiple Lanes of Product
Patent: 5,361,889 →
Application: 08/123,423 →
Moisture Meter Curve Calibration System
Patent: 5,436,456 →
Application: 08/133,534 →
Apparatus for and Method of Automatically Detecting and Eliminating Cigarettes with Visual Defects During Cigarette Manufacture
Patent: 5,366,096 →
Application: 08/153,705 →
Seal Means Between a Rotating Cylinder and Stationary Chute
Patent: 5,462,290 →
Application: 08/195,124 →
Method and Apparatus for Opening Soft-Cup Cigarette Packs
Patent: 5,476,354 →
Application: 08/217,171 →
Latex Detection System
Patent: 5,462,176 →
Application: 08/253,370 →
Smoking Article
Patent: 5,611,360 →
Application: 08/284,251 →
Smoking Products
Patent: 5,551,450 →
Application: 08/306,926 →
Package, and Method for Packaging Loose Leaf Material
Patent: 5,465,554 →
Application: 08/322,063 →
Automated Transfer Car for Transporting Material
Patent: 5,567,105 →
Application: 08/418,342 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 5,996,587 →
Application: 08/624,596 →
Method and Apparatus for Denitrating Tobacco Stem Material
Patent: 5,791,353 →
Application: 08/713,215 →
Tobacco Drying Apparatus
Patent: 5,720,306 →
Application: 08/726,010 →
Method and Apparatus for Low Residence Time Redrying of Tobacco
Patent: 5,755,238 →
Application: 08/732,928 →
Method and Plant for Treating Tobacco Leaves for the Production of Cut Tobacco
Patent: 5,722,431 →
Application: 08/751,481 →
Method and Plant for Treating Tobacco Leaves for the Production of Cut Tobacco
Patent: 5,813,413 →
Application: 08/752,626 →
Method and Apparatus for Automatic and Continuous Pneumatic Feeding of Tobacco
Patent: 5,806,531 →
Application: 08/766,782 →
Reconstituted Tobacco Product
Patent: 5,765,570 →
Application: 08/773,614 →
Smokeless Method and Article Utlizing Catalytic Heat Source for Controlling Products of Combustion
Patent: 5,944,025 →
Application: 08/774,543 →
System for Automatically Opening Cartons and Removing Packages Therein
Patent: 5,870,882 →
Application: 08/824,508 →
Process for Steam Explosion of Tobacco Stem
Patent: 5,873,372 →
Application: 08/854,648 →
Feed Assembly for Pack Seal Tester
Patent: 5,898,104 →
Application: 08/880,820 →
Tobacco Drying Apparatus
Patent: 5,908,033 →
Application: 08/933,686 →
Method and Plant for Treating Tobacco Stems for the Production of Cut Tobacco
Patent: 5,826,590 →
Application: 08/937,112 →
Method for Making a Band Cast Reconstituted Tobacco Sheet Using Steam Exploded Tobacco
Patent: 5,908,034 →
Application: 08/986,741 →
Method for Making a Reconstituted Tobacco Sheet Using Steam Exploded Tobacco
Patent: 5,947,128 →
Application: 08/986,862 →
Aerosol-Delivery Smoking Article
Patent: 5,996,589 →
Application: 09/033,587 →
Automated Feed Assembly for Use with a Pack Seal Tester
Patent: 6,006,438 →
Application: 09/046,074 →
Reduced Ignition Propensity Smoking Artciles
Patent: 6,129,087 →
Application: 09/047,948 →
Ventilated Filter Cigarette with a Coaxial Filter Element
Patent: 5,979,459 →
Application: 09/069,012 →
Ultralight Coaxial Cigarette Including a Multipart Filter
Patent: 6,089,238 →
Application: 09/081,580 →
Cooling and Sieve Drum for Tobacco Material
Patent: 6,082,550 →
Application: 09/183,312 →
Blending Trolley for Forming Vertical Columns of Tobacco in an Intermediate Reservoir
Patent: 6,123,447 →
Application: 09/186,964 →
Method and Device for Regulating the Output Humidity of Tobacco
Patent: 6,155,269 →
Application: 09/188,854 →
Method for Treatment of Tobacco Fine Cut
Patent: 6,227,205 →
Application: 09/197,929 →
Coaxial Cigarette Having Cross Stream Barrier
Patent: 6,067,995 →
Application: 09/198,673 →
Method for Self Cleaning of Tobacco Drying Apparatus
Patent: 6,062,238 →
Application: 09/249,533 →
Tobacco Treatment Process
Patent: 6,131,584 →
Application: 09/292,243 →
Smoking Articles
Patent: 6,257,243 →
Application: 09/341,545 →
Aerosol Delivery Smoking Article
Patent: 6,178,969 →
Application: 09/358,386 →
Apparatus for Applying a Liquid Medium to Tobacco
Patent: 6,263,881 →
Application: 09/404,125 →
Method of Wrappng a Package Having a Corona Treated Tear Tape
Patent: 6,363,691 →
Application: 09/404,128 →
Smoking Material
Patent: 6,779,531 →
Application: 09/446,232 →
Banderole Gluing Apparatus and Method
Patent: 6,613,149 →
Application: 09/448,547 →
Tobacco Recovery System
Patent: 6,371,126 →
Application: 09/513,993 →
Reduced Protein Reconstituted Tobacco and Method of Making Same
Patent: 6,508,254 →
Application: 09/612,119 →
Wrapper for Smoking Article
Patent: 6,722,372 →
Application: 09/619,793 →
Transparent frame carton enclosure
Patent: 6,338,410 →
Application: 09/621,526 →
Hinge lid cigarette packets
Patent: 6,296,113 →
Application: 09/622,912 →
Method for forming vertical columns of tobacco in an intermediate reservoir
Patent: 6,322,317 →
Application: 09/669,304 →
Coupon Inserter for Hinge Lid Pack
Patent: 6,427,423 →
Application: 09/702,110 →
Tobacco Treatment Process
Patent: 6,571,801 →
Application: 09/705,537 →
Method and Device for Regulating the Output Humidity of Tobacco
Patent: 6,502,581 →
Application: 09/729,405 →
Publication: US 2001/0000095
Lighter Integral with a Smoking Article
Patent: 6,536,442 →
Application: 09/734,510 →
Publication: US 2002/0100487
Smoke-Modifying Agents and Smoking Material Rods Comprising Smoke-Modifying Agents
Patent: 6,475,288 →
Application: 09/762,738 →
Pack for Smoking Articles
Patent: 6,474,468 →
Application: 09/763,373 →
Method of Cutting Sheets of Reconstituted Tobacco
Patent: 6,595,216 →
Application: 09/812,632 →
Flip Open Package with Microencapsulated Flavor Release
Patent: 6,612,429 →
Application: 09/887,212 →
Publication: US 2002/0195355
Child Resistant Tablet Dispenser
Patent: 6,564,967 →
Application: 09/896,661 →
Non-Combustible Smoking Device and Fuel Element
Patent: 6,598,607 →
Application: 10/012,238 →
Publication: US 2003/0075188
Device for Supplying a Flowable Medium to the Tobacco of a Smoking Product
Patent: 6,745,778 →
Application: 10/040,072 →
Publication: US 2002/0078970
Smoking Article Using Steam as an Aerosol-Generating Source
Patent: 6,532,965 →
Application: 10/045,922 →
Tobacco Recovery System
Patent: 6,510,855 →
Application: 10/084,595 →
Pressurized Tobacco Drying Process
Patent: 6,718,988 →
Application: 10/088,958 →
Smoking Article Comprising a Wrapper Containing a Ceramic Material
Patent: 6,935,346 →
Application: 10/148,977 →
Publication: US 2002/0189625
Cigarette Filter
Patent: 6,779,529 →
Application: 10/178,713 →
Publication: US 2003/0070686
Method for Processing Reconstituted Tobacco
Patent: 6,807,969 →
Application: 10/217,509 →
Gas Micro Burner
Patent: 6,827,573 →
Application: 10/217,695 →
Publication: US 2004/0081933
Resealable Cigarette Package
Patent: 6,889,827 →
Application: 10/218,075 →
Publication: US 2004/0031706
Tobacco Treatment
Application: 10/221,126 →
Publication: US 2004/0025891
Process for Reducing Nitrogen Containing Compounds and Lignin in Tobacco
Patent: 6,772,767 →
Application: 10/237,837 →
Publication: US 2004/0045565
Smoke Modifying Agents and Smoking Material Rods Comprising Smoke-Modifying Agents
Patent: 6,645,305 →
Application: 10/238,278 →
Publication: US 2003/0029466
Apparatus and Method for Processing Winnowers at a Cigarette Maker
Patent: 6,877,516 →
Application: 10/265,870 →
Publication: US 2004/0261806
Smoking Article Packaging
Patent: 6,874,623 →
Application: 10/296,307 →
Publication: US 2003/0164314
Smokable filler material containing a fruit material
Application: 10/297,822 →
Publication: US 2004/0074508
Cigarette with Burn Rate Modification
Patent: 6,827,087 →
Application: 10/299,231 →
Publication: US 2004/0094171
Controlling Cuts in an Inner Liner for a Group of Cigarettes
Patent: 6,878,103 →
Application: 10/329,875 →
Publication: US 2003/0123068
Method for Making a Cigarette with Burn Rate Modification
Patent: 7,051,739 →
Application: 10/342,051 →
Publication: US 2004/0094172
Apparatus for Making Cigarette with Burn Rate Modification
Patent: 6,705,325 →
Application: 10/389,072 →
Smoking article
Application: 10/425,284 →
Publication: US 2004/0261805
Process for Making a Bandcast Tobacco Sheet and Smoking Article Therefrom
Patent: 7,308,898 →
Application: 10/811,270 →
Publication: US 2004/0177856
Removal of nitrogen containing compounds from tobacco
Application: 10/835,379 →
Publication: US 2005/0241657
Packaged Article with Tear-Away Label Portion
Patent: 7,228,961 →
Application: 10/838,591 →
Publication: US 2005/0247583
Selective filtration of cigarette smoke using chitosan derivatives
Application: 10/842,165 →
Publication: US 2005/0247323
Tobacco filler of low nitrogen content
Application: 10/855,925 →
Publication: US 2005/0263161
Application of mesoporous molecular sieves as selective smoke filtration additives
Application: 10/860,775 →
Publication: US 2005/0268925
Product Display Case
Patent: 360,090 →
Application: 29/016,598 →
Carton
Patent: 360,131 →
Application: 29/021,048 →
Tray for a Bulk Container
Patent: 379,716 →
Application: 29/048,428 →
Hot Air Balloon
Patent: 388,391 →
Application: 29/062,997 →
Related Assignments (3)
Other recorded transfers of the patents in this record — the chain of ownership.
Assignment of Assignor's Interest Sep 29, 2004
From: BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION
To: BROWN & WILLIAMSON U.S.A., INC.
Reel/Frame 015201/0628 →
Security Interest Oct 8, 2004
From: R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK
Reel/Frame 015259/0006 →
Security Interest Jun 28, 2006
From: R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 017906/0671 →