Lapsed Oct 17, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 5, 2032
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
Filed Dec 11, 2014 as application 14/567,552 · Granted Oct 17, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 119 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 17, 2025
2012
2033
Clock starts
Sep 5, 2012
Sep 5, 2012
No longer in force
Oct 17, 2025
Oct 17, 2025
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 2, 2033
Jan 2, 2033
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
119
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.
36
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 Jan 2, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 119 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 Sep 5, 2012, when application 13/604,012, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 11, 2014) | Sep 5, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +119 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 2, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 17, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 17, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,771,328 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| Application PCT/US2012/053838 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,022,554 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/035009 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,286,224 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2014/069789 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,789,333 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 10,300,298 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
8 of 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2015 Reel 34897, frame 722 | Tapper, Jay; Blaustein, Lawrence A; Shuter, David; Shuter, Daniel Joseph; Freitag, Eric; Althoff, Charles Peter; Bramley, Alistair; Zadeh, Allen | La Lumiere LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 5, 2015 Reel 34897, frame 822 | Lorenc, Zbigniew Paul | La Lumiere LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2016 Reel 37743, frame 231 | La Lumiere LLC | Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 119 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.