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Heart Valve Repair Devices for Placement in Ventricle and Delivery Systems for Implanting Heart Valve Repair Devices

US 10,098,738 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 16, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Filed Jun 7, 2017 as application 15/616,304 · Granted Oct 16, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 16, 2026
2014 2034
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2014
No longer in force
Oct 16, 2026
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Term would have run to
Jun 26, 2034
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

Its term would have run to Jun 26, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Jun 26, 2014, when application 14/315,749, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 7, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 26, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"lapsed Oct 16, 2026Low confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 16, 2026Low confidence

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
Jun 7, 2017
Reel 42637, frame 391
Yaron, Ira; Ben-zvi, YonatanMitralix Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 4, 2021
Reel 56479, frame 557
Mitralix Ltd.Mitralix Ltd.Change of Address

Sources

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

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