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Bone Plate with Variable Torsional Stiffness at Fixed Angle Holes

US 7,867,261 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Jan 11, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Biomet C.V.
Filed Nov 7, 2006 as application 11/557,429 · Granted Jan 11, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 11, 2023
2005 2028
Clock starts
Mar 17, 2005
No longer in force
Jan 11, 2023
Granted
Jan 11, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 21, 2028
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
1,100
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.
9
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 Mar 21, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 1100 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 17, 2005, when application 11/082,401, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 7, 2006)Mar 17, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1100 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 21, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 11, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 11, 2023High confidence

This family

US 8,062,296In force
no later than Sep 2029
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US 8,394,098In force
no later than Mar 2030
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US 8,394,130In force
Oct 2029
Oct 2029
US 7,867,261this patent
Jan 2023
Jan 2023
US 8,419,775In force
Aug 2027
Aug 2027
US 8,747,442Term ended
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
US 9,526,543In force
no later than Nov 2026
no later than Nov 2026
US 9,913,671Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
8 of 9 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
Mar 16, 2007
Reel 19029, frame 319
Orbay, Jorge L.; Sixto, Robert, JR.; Francese, Jose LuisDePuy Products, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 24, 2013
Reel 29683, frame 912
DePuy Products, Inc.Biomet C.V.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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