Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 20, 2023 (Texas Capital Bank).
Term ended Sep 30, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 30, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Bowtech, LLC
Filed Apr 1, 2011 as application 13/078,841 · Granted Oct 9, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 30, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2005
Sep 30, 2005
Term ended
Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 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.
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.
4
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: Medium. 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 Sep 30, 2005, when application 11/241,030, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 1, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium 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 | Sep 30, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,441,555 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2016 | Oct 2016 |
| US 7,938,109 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,281,775 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2011 Reel 26064, frame 43 | Larson, Marlow W. | Larson Archery Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2015 Reel 35415, frame 956 | Larson Archery Company | Bowtech, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2015 Reel 37029, frame 493 | Bowtech, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as US Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 6, 2022 Reel 60413, frame 962 | Antares Capital LP, as US Agent | Bowtech, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 4, 2022 Reel 61882, frame 752 | Bowtech, Inc. | Bowtech, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Jan 20, 2023 Reel 62439, frame 321 | Bowtech, LLC; Black Gold Archery, LLC; Excalibur Crossbow, LLC | Texas Capital Bank, As Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
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Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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