Term ends Jun 14, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 28, 2032
Held by Mary Kay Inc.
Filed Feb 26, 2021 as application 17/186,481 · Granted Jun 6, 2023
Base term plus 78 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Mar 28, 2012
Mar 28, 2012
Term ends
Jun 14, 2032
Jun 14, 2032
Granted
Jun 6, 2023
Jun 6, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
78
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 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.
17
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 78 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 28, 2012, when application 13/432,875, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2021) | Mar 28, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +78 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 14, 2032 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 14, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,883,224 | Grace period ended Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| Application 14/517,540 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,328,019 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| Application 16/373,366 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,666,525 | this patent Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 11,752,089 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 11,684,562 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 11,583,491 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
8 of 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2021 Reel 55424, frame 677 | Florence, Tiffany; Hines, Michelle; Gan, David | Mary Kay Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2032
Term ends Jun 14, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 78 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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