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US 7,749,281 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 29, 2008 (Kaupthing Bank HF).

Term ended Mar 9, 2024 · High confidence

Held by Ossur HF
Filed May 24, 2005 as application 11/135,354 · Granted Jul 6, 2010
Base term plus 1267 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Mar 9, 2024
2003 2026
Clock starts
Oct 23, 2003
Term ended
Mar 9, 2024
Granted
Jul 6, 2010
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
1,267
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 7,025,793.
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.
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 1267 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 23, 2003, when application 10/690,545, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 24, 2005)Oct 23, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1267 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 12, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,025,793)capped to Mar 9, 2024High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 9, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,025,793Term ended
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
US 7,749,281this patent
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
US 7,909,884In force
Mar 2027
Mar 2027
US 8,034,120Term ended
Mar 2024
Mar 2024
Application PCT/US2007/018684PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,097,043Term ended
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
US 8,052,760Term ended
no later than Oct 2023
no later than Oct 2023
US 8,894,719Term ended
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 23, 2005
Reel 16399, frame 484
Egilsson, Egill SveinbjornOssur HFAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 29, 2008
Reel 21301, frame 546
Ossur HFKaupthing Bank HFAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 25, 2009
Reel 22309, frame 98
Ossur HFKaupthing Bank HFCorrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance from "Assignment of Assignor's Interest" to "Security Agreement." Previously Recorded on Reel 021301 Frame 0546. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement.
May 24, 2011
Reel 26331, frame 488
Arion Bank HFOssur HFRelease of Security Interest

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.

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