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Biopsy Device with Aperture Orientation and Improved Tip

US 8,343,071 Term ended
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Term ended Aug 26, 2025 · High confidence

Held by Senorx, Inc.
Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/981,149 · Granted Jan 1, 2013
Base term plus 253 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Aug 26, 2025
2004 2026
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2004
Term ended
Aug 26, 2025
Granted
Jan 1, 2013
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
253
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.
9
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 253 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 16, 2004, when application 11/014,413, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007)Dec 16, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+253 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 26, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 26, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,408,592In force
Jan 2032
Jan 2032
Application PCT/US2004/043021PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,360,990Term ended
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
US 8,343,071this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
Application 12/322,749Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2010/022993PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,105,125In force
Nov 2028
Nov 2028
US 11,246,574In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
8 of 9 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
Sep 21, 2010
Reel 25022, frame 316
Shabaz, Martin V.; Quick, Richard L.; Louw, Frank R.; Lubock, Paul; Safabash, Jason H.Senorx, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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