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Bone Plate Shaping System

US 9,615,874 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 11, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Biomet C.V.
Filed Sep 4, 2014 as application 14/477,321 · Granted Apr 11, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 71 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 11, 2025
2006 2026
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 11, 2025
Granted
Apr 11, 2017
Term would have run to
May 30, 2026
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
71
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
6
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 May 30, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 71 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 20, 2006, when application 11/384,841, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 4, 2014)Mar 20, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+71 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 30, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 11, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 11, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,771,433Term ended
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
US 7,935,126Term ended
no later than Mar 2026
no later than Mar 2026
US 7,740,634In force
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
US 8,858,562Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 9,615,874this patent
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
Application 14/614,034Abandoned
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 10, 2014
Reel 33710, frame 243
DePuy Products, Inc.Biomet C.V.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 10, 2014
Reel 33710, frame 275
Orbay, Jorge L.; Castaneda, Javier E.; Kortenbach, Juergen A.; Sixto, Robert, JR.DePuy Products, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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