Lapsed Jul 12, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 21, 2037
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Levi Strauss & Co.
Filed Nov 11, 2019 as application 16/680,423 · Granted Jul 12, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 282 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 12, 2026
2017
2038
Clock starts
Aug 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017
No longer in force
Jul 12, 2026
Jul 12, 2026
Granted
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022
Term would have run to
May 30, 2038
May 30, 2038
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
282
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.
4
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 May 30, 2038: its 20-year base term plus 282 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 21, 2017, when application 15/682,519, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 11, 2019) | Aug 21, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +282 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 30, 2038 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 12, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 12, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,470,511 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,384,463 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,629,443 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| Application 18/302,740 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 9, 2022 Reel 59875, frame 979 | Levi Strauss & Co. | JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 282 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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