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Brachytherapy Device

US 6,824,507 Term ended
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Term ended no later than Apr 2, 2020 · Low confidence

Held by Engineered Medical Systems, Inc.
Filed Sep 17, 2002 as application 10/245,959 · Granted Nov 30, 2004
Base term plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Ended no later than Apr 2, 2020
2000 2026
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2000
Ended no later than
Apr 2, 2020
Granted
Nov 30, 2004
base term after the term ends fee events 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
12
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
3 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.

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 filingClock starts Mar 21, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 17, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 21, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 2, 2020High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Apr 2, 2020Low confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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