Apparatus for administering a therapeutic agent into tissue using a needle as the material treatment module

US 8,591,472 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Nov 26, 2017 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Ceramatec, Inc. · find this owner

Filed Jul 22, 2011 as application 13/189,290 · Granted Nov 26, 2013

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Nov 26, 2017

2004 2026

Clock starts
Jun 15, 2004

No longer in force
Nov 26, 2017

Granted
Nov 26, 2013

Term would have run to
Jun 15, 2024

base term after the term ends 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.

0 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Jun 15, 2004, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jul 22, 2011)	Jun 15, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	No term adjustment record on a grant after 2005, so none is added	no change	Medium confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Nov 26, 2017	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 26, 2017	From the USPTO record

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Apparatus for administering a therapeutic agent into tissue using a needle as the material treatment module

Lapsed Nov 26, 2017 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Jun 15, 2024

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