Lapsed Aug 9, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2023
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Medicis Technologies Corporation
Filed Dec 29, 2004 as application 11/026,519 · Granted Aug 9, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Aug 9, 2019
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2003
Dec 30, 2003
No longer in force
Aug 9, 2019
Aug 9, 2019
Granted
Aug 9, 2011
Aug 9, 2011
Term would have run to
Oct 19, 2026
Oct 19, 2026
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
1,193
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 7,695,437.
1 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.
8
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 Oct 19, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 1193 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 30, 2003, when applications 10/750,370 and 10/751,344, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Dec 29, 2004) | Dec 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 6, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,695,437) | capped to Oct 19, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 9, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 9, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/751,344 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/750,370 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,993,289 | this patent Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 8,337,407 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2016 | Dec 2016 |
| US 7,857,773 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 8,343,051 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Application 12/954,506 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,180,314 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2005 Reel 15904, frame 624 | Quistgaard, Jens U.; Etchells, Tim; Darlington, Gregory Paul; Desilets, Charles S. | Liposonix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 24, 2009 Reel 22597, frame 363 | Liposonix, Inc. | Medicis Technologies Corporation | Change of Name |
| Apr 3, 2013 Reel 30147, frame 642 | Liposonix, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 18, 2013 Reel 30249, frame 268 | Liposonix, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest - Mezzanine Loan |
| Nov 19, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Liposonix, Inc. | Capital Royalty Partners II L.P. | Short-Form Patent Security Agreement |
| Nov 19, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Liposonix, Inc. | Capital Royalty Partners II - Parallel Fund "a" L.P. | Short-Form Patent Security Agreement |
| Nov 19, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Liposonix, Inc. | Parallel Investment Opportunities Partners II L.P. | Short-Form Patent Security Agreement |
| Nov 19, 2013 Reel 31674, frame 454 | Liposonix, Inc. | Capital Royalty Partners II L.P.; Capital Royalty Partners II - Parallel Fund "a" L.P.; Parallel Investment Opportunities Partners II L.P. | Short-Form Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 24, 2014 Reel 32126, frame 370 | Capital Royalty Partners II L.P.; Capital Royalty Partners II - Parallel Fund "a" L.P.; Parallel Investment Opportunities Partners II L.P. | Liposonix, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jan 24, 2014 Reel 32126, frame 531 | Silicon Valley Bank | Liposonix, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 1193 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 7,695,437.
Citations
416
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% 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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