Term ended Aug 19, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 19, 2025
Held by Cannuflow, Inc.
Filed Aug 18, 2009 as application 12/542,844 · Granted Aug 9, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 19, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 19, 2005
Aug 19, 2005
Term ended
Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025
Granted
Aug 9, 2011
Aug 9, 2011
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 19, 2005, when application 11/213,645, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 18, 2009) | Aug 19, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 19, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,575,565 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/032281 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,993,299 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 13/204,961 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,233,236 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 10,070,881 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,813,658 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 11,730,350 | Term ended no later than Aug 2026 | no later than Aug 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2009 Reel 23110, frame 836 | Kucklick, Theodore R. | Cannuflow, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
9
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.
How we rank
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