Lapsed Jan 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 25, 2030
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
Filed Jun 25, 2010 as application 12/823,791 · Granted Jan 29, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 259 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 29, 2025
2010
2031
Clock starts
Jun 25, 2010
Jun 25, 2010
No longer in force
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
Granted
Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013
Term would have run to
Mar 11, 2031
Mar 11, 2031
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
259
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
13
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 Mar 11, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 259 days of term 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 25, 2010, when this application, 12/823,791, was filed | Jun 25, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +259 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 11, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 29, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,361,102 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 8,545,531 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,540,676 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,540,747 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,728,111 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,715,311 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,979,889 | Surrendered on reissue May 2018 | May 2018 |
| US 8,974,485 | Surrendered on reissue May 2018 | May 2018 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2010 Reel 24596, frame 777 | Geist, Wyatt Drake; Geist, Arden Allen, SR | Safe Wire Holding, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2016 Reel 38636, frame 487 | Safewire, LLC; Safe Wire Holding, LLC | Orthovita, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2023 Reel 65734, frame 863 | Orthovita, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 7, 2023 Reel 65819, frame 377 | Orthovita, Inc. | Howmedica Osteonics Corp. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment Execution Date from 11/8/2020 to 11/8/2023 Previously Recorded on Reel 065734 Frame 0863. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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Note
The 259 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
87
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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