Lapsed Jun 11, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 10, 2027
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Cilag GmbH International
Filed Jan 10, 2007 as application 11/651,807 · Granted Jun 11, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 11, 2025
2007
2030
Clock starts
Jan 10, 2007
Jan 10, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11, 2025
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013
Term would have run to
Jan 20, 2030
Jan 20, 2030
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
1,106
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.
38
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 Jan 20, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1106 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 Jan 10, 2007, when this application, 11/651,807, was filed | Jan 10, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 20, 2030 | 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 Jun 11, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 11, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,459,520 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 8,517,243 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 13/037,498 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,684,253 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,479,969 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2012/026997 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2012/039156 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 13/489,500 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2007 Reel 19056, frame 465 | Giordano, James R.; Swayze, Jeffrey S.; Shelton, Frederick E., IV | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 28, 2015 Reel 37161, frame 710 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2017 Reel 41821, frame 186 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Ethicon LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 27, 2021 Reel 56601, frame 339 | Ethicon LLC | Cilag GmbH International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2,188
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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