Term ends Apr 28, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 31, 2031
Held by Adidas AG
Filed Sep 26, 2017 as application 15/716,171 · Granted Feb 11, 2020
Base term plus 28 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 31, 2011
Term ends
Apr 28, 2031
Apr 28, 2031
Granted
Feb 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020
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
28
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 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.
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 28 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 31, 2011, when application 13/077,510, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 26, 2017) | Mar 31, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +28 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 28, 2031 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 28, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,141,759 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 9,317,660 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 9,630,059 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 9,802,080 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 9,937,383 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,556,150 | this patent Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| US 10,576,329 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 10,957,439 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2017 Reel 44385, frame 152 | Burich, Meg Susan; Hassonjee, Qaizar; Armitage, Roger; Strecker, Markus | Adidas AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2031
Term ends Apr 28, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 28 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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.