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US 8,097,043 Term ended
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Term ended Oct 23, 2023 · High confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Feb 19, 2024.

Held by Ossur HF
Filed Jun 18, 2010 as application 12/818,426 · Granted Jan 17, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 23, 2023
2003 2026
Clock starts
Oct 23, 2003
Term ended
Oct 23, 2023
Granted
Jan 17, 2012
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.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
17
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. 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 Oct 23, 2003, when application 10/690,545, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 18, 2010)Oct 23, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Feb 19, 2024, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 23, 2023High confidence

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US 7,025,793Term ended
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US 7,749,281Term ended
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US 7,909,884In force
Mar 2027
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US 8,034,120Term ended
Mar 2024
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Application PCT/US2007/018684PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,097,043this patent
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
US 8,052,760Term ended
no later than Oct 2023
no later than Oct 2023
US 8,894,719Term ended
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
8 of 17 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
Jun 21, 2010
Reel 24565, frame 656
Egilsson, Egill SveinbjornOssur HFAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 21, 2010
Reel 24565, frame 794
Ossur HFArion Bank HFSecurity Agreement
Dec 9, 2011
Reel 27357, frame 51
Arion Bank HFOssur HFRelease of Security Interest

Sources

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

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