Lapsed Jul 7, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 15, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Omni Medsci, Inc.
Filed Feb 21, 2014 as application 14/186,171 · Granted Jul 7, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 7, 2019
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2006
Nov 15, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 7, 2019
Jul 7, 2019
Granted
Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015
Term would have run to
Nov 15, 2026
Nov 15, 2026
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,670,642, to Nov 15, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 Nov 15, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Nov 15, 2006, when application 11/599,950, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 21, 2014) | Nov 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,670,642) | resolves to Nov 15, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 7, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 7, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,519,253 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,055,108 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
| US 8,391,660 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| US 8,670,642 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 8,971,681 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 9,077,146 | this patent Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 |
| US 9,400,215 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| US 9,476,769 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,670,642, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.