Lapsed May 4, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 4, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Smith & Nephew, Inc.
Filed Apr 4, 2005 as application 11/098,203 · Granted May 4, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 953 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 4, 2022
2005
2027
Clock starts
Apr 4, 2005
Apr 4, 2005
No longer in force
May 4, 2022
May 4, 2022
Granted
May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010
Term would have run to
Nov 13, 2027
Nov 13, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
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
953
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
18
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 Nov 13, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 953 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 Apr 4, 2005, when this application, 11/098,203, was filed | Apr 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +953 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 13, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 4, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 4, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,062,272 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
| US 7,708,724 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,909,805 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,303,552 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,795,243 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,282,611 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,449,509 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 10,058,642 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2005 Reel 16816, frame 318 | Blue Sky Medical Group, Inc.; Weston, Richard; Johnson, Tim | Huntleigh Healthcare Funding LLC | Security Agreement |
| May 1, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Huntleigh Healthcare Funding LLC. | Bluesky Medical Group Incorporated | Release of Security Interest |
| May 1, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Huntleigh Healthcare Funding LLC. | Weston, Richard Scott | Release of Security Interest |
| May 1, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Huntleigh Healthcare Funding LLC. | Johnson, Tim | Release of Security Interest |
| May 1, 2007 Reel 19235, frame 1 | Huntleigh Healthcare Funding LLC. | Bluesky Medical Group Incorporated; Weston, Richard Scott; Johnson, Tim | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 30, 2007 Reel 19776, frame 269 | Weston, Richard Scott | Bluesky Medical Group Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2017 Reel 44881, frame 985 | Bluesky Medical Group Incorporated | Smith & Nephew, Inc. | Merger |
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Note
The 953 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
389
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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