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Apparatus and Method for Treating Tissue

US 10,085,911 In force
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Term ends Mar 30, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Aug 11, 2015 as application 14/823,016 · Granted Oct 2, 2018
Base term plus 507 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2029
Clock starts
Nov 9, 2007
Term ends
Mar 30, 2029
Granted
Oct 2, 2018
base term patent term adjustment 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
507
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,101,524, to Mar 30, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term runs 507 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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 Nov 9, 2007, when application 11/937,917, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 11, 2015)Nov 9, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+507 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 30, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,101,524)resolves to Mar 30, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 30, 2029High confidence

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US 9,101,524In force
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US 10,085,911this patent
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US 10,888,491In force
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US 11,723,829In force
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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
Oct 12, 2015
Reel 36839, frame 506
Lumenis Ltd.Mizrahi Tefahot Trust Companyh Ltd.Security Interest
Sep 1, 2016
Reel 39900, frame 390
Mizrahi Tefahot Trust Company Ltd.Lumenis Ltd.Release of Security Interest
Oct 21, 2018
Reel 47247, frame 200
Aghion, JosephLumenis Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 1, 2021
Reel 57979, frame 351
Lumenis Ltd.Lumenis Be Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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