Term ends Apr 21, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 19, 2024
Held by Purisys LLC
Filed May 10, 2007 as application 11/571,864 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term plus 1006 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Jul 19, 2004
Jul 19, 2004
Term ends
Apr 21, 2027
Apr 21, 2027
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,006
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
2
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 1006 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jul 19, 2004, when application PCT/CH2004/000458, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 10, 2007) | Jul 19, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1006 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 21, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 21, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,923,558 | this patent Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2007 Reel 19273, frame 476 | Arslantas, Enver; Weigl, Ulrich | Cilag Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2016 Reel 39189, frame 769 | Noramco GmbH | Cerberus Business Finance, LLC | Security Interest |
| Jul 19, 2016 Reel 39390, frame 618 | Cilag AG | Noramco GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 4, 2019 Reel 51175, frame 606 | Noramco GmbH | Noramco, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 31, 2019 Reel 51455, frame 724 | Noramco, Inc. | Noramco, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Jan 7, 2020 Reel 51433, frame 718 | Noramco, LLC | Purisys LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2020 Reel 52207, frame 503 | Purisys LLC | Cerberus Business Finance, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Assignment of Security Interest - Patents |
| May 1, 2026 Reel 74545, frame 764 | Cerberus Business Finance, LLC | Purisys LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2027
Term ends Apr 21, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1006 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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