Term ends Dec 21, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 21, 2037
Held by Ontex B.V.
Filed Jun 30, 2020 as application 16/917,308 · Granted Mar 26, 2024
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Dec 21, 2017
Dec 21, 2017
Term ends
Dec 21, 2037
Dec 21, 2037
Granted
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
base term
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
373
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 10,729,599.
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.
6
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 373 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 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 Dec 21, 2017, when application PCT/EP2017/084195, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2020) | Dec 21, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 29, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,729,599) | capped to Dec 21, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 21, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,729,599 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| Application 16/661,316 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/912,955 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,938,010 | this patent Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 11,752,047 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2020 Reel 53091, frame 848 | Weber, Ainas; Breu, Manfred; Mailinger, Christel; Heege, Thomas | Ontex Bvba | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2020 Reel 53091, frame 933 | Ontex Bvba | Ontex Group N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 26, 2021 Reel 57334, frame 708 | Ontex Bvba | Ontex B.V. | Entity Conversion |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Dec 2037
Term ends Dec 21, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 373 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 10,729,599.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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.