Term ends Mar 22, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 6, 2034
Held by Cilag GmbH International
Filed Jun 6, 2014 as application 14/298,056 · Granted Oct 17, 2017
Base term plus 655 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2036
Clock starts
Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014
Term ends
Mar 22, 2036
Mar 22, 2036
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
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
655
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.
20
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 655 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, 14/298,056, was filed | Jun 6, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +655 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 22, 2036 | 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 | Mar 22, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,357,998 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 9,427,227 | In force no later than May 2035 | no later than May 2035 |
| US 9,498,207 | In force no later than Nov 2034 | no later than Nov 2034 |
| US 9,398,905 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,486,209 | In force no later than Sep 2033 | no later than Sep 2033 |
| Application 13/832,867 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,173,655 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| Application 13/832,986 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 2014 Reel 33375, frame 384 | Martin, David T.; Mumaw, Daniel J.; Bookbinder, Mark J.; White, William J.; Deck, Andrew C. | Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2014 Reel 33391, frame 303 | Geiger, Daniel L. | Ite, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2014 Reel 33391, frame 335 | 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 |
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What's changing
Mar 2036
Term ends Mar 22, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 655 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
73
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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