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Suture Anchor with Insert-Molded Suture Eyelet

US 8,764,797 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ended Jan 13, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Dec 12, 2006 as application 11/636,972 · Granted Jul 1, 2014
Base term plus 1807 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jan 13, 2025
2000 2026
Clock starts
Feb 2, 2000
Term ended
Jan 13, 2025
Granted
Jul 1, 2014
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
1,807
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.
22
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 1807 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 2, 2000, when application 09/495,816, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 2, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+1807 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 13, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 13, 2025Medium confidence

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Feb 2027
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US 9,521,999Term ended
Sep 2025
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Application 11/299,666Abandoned
not computed
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Application PCT/US2006/035239PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,821,541Term ended
no later than Nov 2022
no later than Nov 2022
US 8,764,797this patent
Jan 2025
Jan 2025
8 of 22 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 5, 2007
Reel 19008, frame 742
Dreyfuss, Peter J.; Benavitz, William C.; Schmieding, ReinholdArthrex, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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