Term ends Oct 22, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 28, 2026
Held by Zimmer GmbH
Filed Sep 28, 2006 as application 11/536,441 · Granted Mar 12, 2013
Base term plus 1120 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2029
Clock starts
Sep 28, 2006
Sep 28, 2006
Term ends
Oct 22, 2029
Oct 22, 2029
Granted
Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,120
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 1120 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Sep 28, 2006, when this application, 11/536,441, was filed | Sep 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1120 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 22, 2029 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 22, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,062,296 | In force no later than Sep 2029 | no later than Sep 2029 |
| US 8,394,098 | In force no later than Mar 2030 | no later than Mar 2030 |
| US 8,394,130 | this patent Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 7,867,261 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 |
| US 8,419,775 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,747,442 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 9,526,543 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
| US 9,913,671 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2006 Reel 18421, frame 1 | Orbay, Jorge L.; Castaneda, Javier E.; Graham, Robert; Sixto, JR., Robert; Francese, Jose Luis; Bourda, Marcus; Mebarak, Edward; Cavallazzi, Cesare | DePuy Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 24, 2013 Reel 29683, frame 912 | DePuy Products, Inc. | Biomet C.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 2, 2024 Reel 68233, frame 456 | Biomet C.V. | Zimmer GmbH | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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What's changing
Oct 2029
Term ends Oct 22, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1120 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
124
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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