Lapsed Mar 15, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 2, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Electrocore, LLC
Filed Jan 13, 2015 as application 14/596,167 · Granted Mar 15, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 15, 2024
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 2, 2006
Nov 2, 2006
No longer in force
Mar 15, 2024
Mar 15, 2024
Granted
Mar 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016
Term would have run to
Nov 2, 2026
Nov 2, 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.
1 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.
9
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 2, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 2, 2006, when application 11/591,768, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 13, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 2, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 15, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 15, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,711,430 | In force no later than Apr 2028 | no later than Apr 2028 |
| US 7,869,880 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,010,197 | Term ended no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
| US 8,099,167 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,204,598 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,934,977 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 9,283,390 | this patent Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
7 of 9 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 2015 Reel 34773, frame 382 | Errico, Joseph P.; Mendez, Steven | Electrocore, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 4, 2015 Reel 35082, frame 518 | Mohan, Vidyabhushan; Frayer, Jack Edward | SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2018 Reel 45069, frame 414 | Errico, Joseph P.; Mendez, Steven | Electrocore, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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
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