Also listed on Ite, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 6, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 6, 2034
Held by Cilag GmbH International
Filed Jun 6, 2014 as application 14/297,993 · Granted Oct 25, 2016
Base term plus 245 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014
Term ends
Feb 6, 2035
Feb 6, 2035
Granted
Oct 25, 2016
Oct 25, 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
245
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.
2
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 245 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 Jun 6, 2014, when this application, 14/297,993, was filed | Jun 6, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +245 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 6, 2035 | 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 | Feb 6, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,474,522 | this patent Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| Application 15/285,783 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2014 Reel 33392, frame 102 | Deck, Andrew C.; Mumaw, Daniel J.; Martin, David T. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 25, 2014 Reel 33392, frame 203 | Geiger, Daniel L. | Ite, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 25, 2014 Reel 33392, frame 229 | Ite, LLC | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2016 Reel 37540, frame 562 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 3, 2017 Reel 41873, frame 414 | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC | Ethicon LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 27, 2021 Reel 56601, frame 339 | Ethicon LLC | Cilag GmbH International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2035
Term ends Feb 6, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 245 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
80
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.
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