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Gentle Hemorrhoid Treatment Offering a Substantially Painless Healing

US 8,632,458 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 21, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Het System, LLC
Filed Oct 26, 2011 as application 13/282,439 · Granted Jan 21, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 21, 2026
2011 2031
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2011
No longer in force
Jan 21, 2026
Granted
Jan 21, 2014
Term would have run to
Nov 15, 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
20
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.

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 filingClock starts Oct 26, 2011, when this application, 13/282,439, was filedOct 26, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+20 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 15, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 21, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 21, 2026Medium confidence

Sources

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