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Method of Providing for the Minimization of Extravasation During Arthroscopic Surgery

US 10,070,881 Term ended
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Term ended Oct 17, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jan 12, 2016 as application 14/993,609 · Granted Sep 11, 2018
Base term plus 424 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 17, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 19, 2005
Term ended
Oct 17, 2026
Granted
Sep 11, 2018
base term patent term adjustment 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
424
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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This patent's term runs 424 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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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 Aug 19, 2005, when application 11/213,645, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 12, 2016)Aug 19, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+424 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 17, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 17, 2026High confidence

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US 7,575,565In force
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Application PCT/US2006/032281PCT application
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Application 13/204,961Abandoned
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US 9,233,236Term ended
May 2026
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US 10,070,881this patent
Oct 2026
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US 10,813,658Term ended
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US 11,730,350Term ended
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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
Jan 12, 2016
Reel 37467, frame 238
Kucklick, Theodore R.Cannuflow, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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