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US 10,635,663 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 28, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 12, 2017 as application 15/782,521 · Granted Apr 28, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 383 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 28, 2024
2014 2035
Clock starts
Jul 2, 2014
No longer in force
Apr 28, 2024
Granted
Apr 28, 2020
Term would have run to
Jul 20, 2035
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
383
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
2
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 20, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 383 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 2, 2014, when application 14/322,509, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 12, 2017)Jul 2, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+383 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 20, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 28, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 28, 2024High confidence

This family

US 9,792,323In force
Nov 2035
Nov 2035
US 10,635,663this patent
Apr 2024
Apr 2024
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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