Collateral for a security interest recorded May 21, 2021 (Owl Rock Capital Corporation).
Term ends Oct 7, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 13, 2031
Held by Conair LLC
Filed Sep 13, 2011 as application 13/230,980 · Granted Jun 30, 2015
Base term plus 74 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 2011
Term ends
Oct 7, 2031
Oct 7, 2031
Granted
Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
74
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,646,379.
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.
6
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 74 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Sep 13, 2011, when this application, 13/230,980, was filed | Sep 13, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +74 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 26, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,646,379) | capped to Oct 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 7, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,573,115 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,155,418 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 8,646,379 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,066,623 | this patent Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,950,315 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 8,978,541 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2011 Reel 26892, frame 819 | Lai, Kin Man; Fung, Kam Fai; Schnabel, Barbara Lynn | Conair Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2021 Reel 57216, frame 11 | Conair Corporation | Conair LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2021 Reel 56336, frame 98 | Conair LLC | Owl Rock Capital Corporation, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| May 21, 2021 Reel 56336, frame 230 | Conair LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2031
Term ends Oct 7, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 74 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,646,379.
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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