Term ends Mar 25, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 25, 2029
Held by Orthosoft Inc.
Filed Oct 13, 2016 as application 15/292,895 · Granted Apr 9, 2019
Base term plus 191 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2009
Mar 25, 2009
Term ends
Mar 25, 2029
Mar 25, 2029
Granted
Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019
base term
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
191
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,718,820.
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.
7
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 191 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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 Mar 25, 2009, when application 12/410,884, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 13, 2016) | Mar 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +191 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 2, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,718,820) | capped to Mar 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 25, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,265,790 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 9,144,470 | In force Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 8,718,820 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,495,509 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 10,251,653 | this patent Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 11,224,443 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 11,812,974 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2016 Reel 40225, frame 955 | Amiot, Louis-philippe; Boutin, Yannick; Breton, Yonik; Duval, Karine; Jansen, Herbert Andre; Pelletier, Benoit; Proulx, Catherine; Richard, Alain; Valin, Myriam; Zuhars, Joel | Orthosoft Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 22, 2019 Reel 50791, frame 237 | Orthosoft Inc. | Orthosoft ULC | Continuance |
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What's changing
Mar 2029
Term ends Mar 25, 2029.
Note
The 191 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,718,820.
Citations
32
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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