Lapsed Apr 25, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 14, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Abbott Laboratories
Filed Mar 14, 2014 as application 14/213,847 · Granted Apr 25, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 392 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 25, 2025
2014
2035
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
No longer in force
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025
Granted
Apr 25, 2017
Apr 25, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 10, 2035
Apr 10, 2035
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
392
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 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.
30
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 Apr 10, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 392 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 14, 2014, when this application, 14/213,847, was filed | Mar 14, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +392 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 10, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 25, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,867,274 | In force Apr 2035 | Apr 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2012/069434 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,134,203 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| Application PCT/US2012/071850 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,993,820 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,632,103 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,513,303 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 14/214,210 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2014 Reel 33061, frame 388 | Donohue, Joseph P. | Abbott Laboratories | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2018 Reel 45929, frame 96 | Johnson, Ryan P | Abbott Laboratories | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 392 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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
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