Term ends May 20, 2033 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Oatey Co.

Filed Jan 27, 2014 as application 14/164,888 · Granted Aug 23, 2016

Base term plus 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 20, 2033

2013 2033

Clock starts
Jan 23, 2013

Term ends
May 20, 2033

Granted
Aug 23, 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

117

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 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.

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 117 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jan 23, 2013, when application 13/748,180, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 27, 2014)	Jan 23, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+117 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 20, 2033	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 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 20, 2033	High confidence

This family

US 9,422,708	In force Feb 2034	Feb 2034
US 9,422,707	this patent May 2033	May 2033
Application PCT/US2014/065124	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,184,238	In force Jan 2034	Jan 2034
US 10,480,170	In force Dec 2033	Dec 2033

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
Apr 29, 2014 Reel 32780, frame 516	Hull, Eric	Oatey Co.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

May 2033

Term ends May 20, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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