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Respiratory Mask Assembly

US 9,375,545 Lapsed (fee unpaid)

Lapsed Jun 28, 2024 · Medium confidence

Lapsed Jun 28, 2024 · second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Resmed Pty Ltd.
Filed Dec 7, 2012 · Granted Jun 28, 2016
Base term, 20y-from-earliest-nonprovisional, plus 601 days of PTA
Today
Term ended Jun 28, 2024
2005 2027
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2005
No longer in force
Jun 28, 2024
Granted
Jun 28, 2016
Term would have run to
Feb 6, 2027
base term patent term adjustment fee events Computed Sep 27, 2026 · how we know
601
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO PTA record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Windows the record shows paid, at 4, 8 and 12 years from grant.
11
Applications in this family
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain.

This patent's term runs 601 days past the statutory base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20y-from-earliest-nonprovisionalClock starts Jun 15, 2005Jun 15, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainchain has unresolved parents (dated from child's own claim)dated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+601 days, USPTO PTA recordFeb 6, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 28, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 28, 2024Medium confidence

This family

US 7,971,590In forceAug 2028
US 8,353,294Expired (term)Jul 2025
US 9,375,545this patentJun 2024
US 10,039,893Expired (term)Jun 2025
US 10,668,241Lapsed (fee unpaid)Jun 2024
US 11,071,839Expired (term)Jun 2025
US 11,529,489Expired (term)Jun 2025

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
May 5, 2016
Reel 38475, frame 694
Gunaratnam, Michael KassipillaiResmed LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 5, 2016
Reel 38475, frame 735
Frater, Robert Henry; Drew, Joanne Elizabeth; Kwok, Philip Rodney; Mcauliffe, Patrick John; Davidson, Aaron Samuel; Hitchcock, Robin GarthResmed LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 5, 2016
Reel 38475, frame 810
Darkin, Donald; Robinson, Gary ChristopherResmed LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 5, 2016
reel/frame not recorded
Mcauliffe, Patrick John; Hitchcock, Robin Garth; Davidson, Aaron Samuel; Drew, Joanne Elizabeth; Kwok, Philip Rodney; Frater, Robert HenryResmed LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 30, 2019
Reel 50005, frame 461
Resmed LimitedResmed Pty Ltd.Change of Name

Sources

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The 601 days of PTA are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

100
later US patents cite this one
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