Term ends Jan 22, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 22, 2034
Held by Wacom Co., Ltd.
Filed Sep 17, 2021 as application 17/478,804 · Granted Sep 26, 2023
Base term plus 43 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014
Term ends
Jan 22, 2034
Jan 22, 2034
Granted
Sep 26, 2023
Sep 26, 2023
base term
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
43
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,150,761.
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.
8
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 43 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jan 22, 2014, when application PCT/JP2014/051296, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 17, 2021) | Jan 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +43 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 6, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,150,761) | capped to Jan 22, 2034 | 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 | Jan 22, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,209,829 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 10,768,748 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 11,150,761 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 11,768,554 | this patent Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 12,124,647 | In force no later than Jan 2034 | no later than Jan 2034 |
| US 12,504,843 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| Application 19/400,310 | Pending not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2034
Term ends Jan 22, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 43 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,150,761.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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