Term ends Feb 5, 2033 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 17, 2031
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Oakley, Inc.
Filed Sep 11, 2015 as application 14/852,235 · Granted Jul 9, 2019
Base term plus 719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2033
Clock starts
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011
Term ends
Feb 5, 2033
Feb 5, 2033
Granted
Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 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
719
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
13
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 719 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 17, 2011, when application 13/029,997, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 11, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 17, 2031 | 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 | +719 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 5, 2033 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 5, 2033 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,770,749 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2011/032172 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,134,547 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,383,594 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 10,345,623 | this patent Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 10,976,574 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,401,652 | In force Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| US 10,502,980 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
8 of 13 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2017 Reel 42415, frame 9 | McCabe, Brock Scott; Saylor, Ryan; Reyes, Carlos D. | Oakley, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2033
Term ends Feb 5, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
30
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
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.