Term ends Aug 5, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 20, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
Filed Aug 28, 2013 as application 14/012,525 · Granted May 17, 2016
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Apr 20, 2007
Apr 20, 2007
Term ends
Aug 5, 2027
Aug 5, 2027
Granted
May 17, 2016
May 17, 2016
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
107
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
66
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 107 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Apr 20, 2007, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Aug 28, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 20, 2027 | 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 | +107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 5, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 5, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,152,261 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,343,635 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2005/032550 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,565,708 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Application PCT/US2007/011056 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,060,960 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 9,186,291 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,707,484 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
8 of 66 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 15, 2015 Reel 34729, frame 839 | Guerra, Lawrence E.; Waggoner, Trevor A.; Walton, Steven R.; Herron, Michael A. | Roger P. Jackson | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 27, 2018 Reel 45470, frame 425 | Jackson, Roger P. | Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Aug 2027
Term ends Aug 5, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
202
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.