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Surgical Stapling Instrument with Staples Having Crown Features for Increasing Formed Staple Footprint

US 8,808,325 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 19, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 19, 2012 as application 13/680,433 · Granted Aug 19, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 19, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 19, 2026
Granted
Aug 19, 2014
Term would have run to
Sep 29, 2026
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
12
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 Sep 29, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 29, 2006, when application 11/541,123, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 19, 2012)Sep 29, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 19, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 19, 2026High confidence

This family

US 7,794,475In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
Application PCT/US2007/017587PCT application
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Application 12/622,130Abandoned
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Application 12/880,414Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2010/051301PCT application
no patent term
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US 8,808,325this patent
Aug 2026
Aug 2026
US 10,130,359In force
Mar 2027
Mar 2027
US 10,695,053In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
8 of 12 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
Feb 1, 2013
Reel 29737, frame 599
Clem, Michael F.Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 28, 2015
Reel 37161, frame 710
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 28, 2017
Reel 41825, frame 651
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCEthicon LLCChange of Name
Apr 27, 2021
Reel 56601, frame 339
Ethicon LLCCilag GmbH InternationalAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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