Term ends Nov 20, 2037 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Tedder Industries, LLC

Filed Nov 20, 2017 as application 15/818,567 · Granted Nov 6, 2018

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 20, 2037

2017 2037

Clock starts
Nov 20, 2017

Term ends
Nov 20, 2037

Granted
Nov 6, 2018

base term fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.

2 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Nov 20, 2017, when this application, 15/818,567, was filed	Nov 20, 2037	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 20, 2037	High confidence

This family

US 10,119,783	this patent Nov 2037	Nov 2037
US 10,495,410	In force Nov 2037	Nov 2037

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.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Aug 21, 2018 Reel 46895, frame 538	Tedder, Thomas; Shearer, Jacob	Tedder Industries, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47073, frame 948	Tedder Industries, LLC	Tedder Acquisition, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 26, 2019 Reel 48709, frame 141	Tedder Acquisition, LLC; Tedder Industries, LLC	Tedder Industries, LLC	Merger and Change of Name
Apr 30, 2026 Reel 74532, frame 653	Tedder Industries, LLC	Safariland, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 26, 2026 Reel 75986, frame 244	Tedder Industries, LLC	Tedder Industries, LLC	Entity Conversion

Sources

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

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What's changing

Nov 2037

Term ends Nov 20, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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