Term ends Dec 27, 2029 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 17, 2029
Held by Otonomy, Inc.
Filed Aug 21, 2014 as application 14/465,153 · Granted Mar 19, 2019
Base term plus 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Jun 17, 2009
Jun 17, 2009
Term ends
Dec 27, 2029
Dec 27, 2029
Granted
Mar 19, 2019
Mar 19, 2019
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
193
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 8,846,770, to Dec 27, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
2
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 runs 193 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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 17, 2009, when application 12/486,697, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 21, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 27, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,846,770) | resolves to Dec 27, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 12486697 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 27, 2029 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,846,770 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 10,232,044 | this patent Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2015 Reel 37308, frame 174 | Lichter, Jay; Vollrath, Benedikt; Duron, Sergio G.; Piu, Fabrice; Dellamary, Luis A.; Ye, Qiang; Lebel, Carl; Scaife, Michael Christopher; Trammel, Andrew M. | Otonomy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 16, 2015 Reel 37308, frame 285 | Harris, Jeffrey P. | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2029
Term ends Dec 27, 2029.
Note
The 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,846,770, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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.