Term ends Dec 13, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 17, 2028
Held by Gatorfur, LLC
Filed Dec 17, 2008 as application 12/337,305 · Granted Feb 15, 2011
Base term plus 121 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2008
Dec 17, 2008
Term ends
Dec 13, 2026
Dec 13, 2026
Granted
Feb 15, 2011
Feb 15, 2011
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
121
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 7,527,006.
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.
10
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 121 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 are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 17, 2008, when this application, 12/337,305, was filed | Dec 17, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +121 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,527,006) | capped to Dec 13, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 13, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,886,676 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2010/031037 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,240,264 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 9,003,988 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 9,527,560 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 10,173,758 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 10,800,498 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,479,329 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
8 of 10 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 22, 2017 Reel 42945, frame 55 | Versabar, Inc. | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43572, frame 98 | Khachaturian, Jon E. | Versabar, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 11, 2024 Reel 67077, frame 781 | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | MC51, LLC | Assignment of Security Interest |
| May 10, 2024 Reel 67381, frame 630 | MC51, LLC | Versabar, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 30, 2024 Reel 67571, frame 487 | Versabar, Inc. | Gatorfur, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 13, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 121 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 7,527,006.
Citations
33
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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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