Term ends Oct 10, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 10, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Acumed LLC
Filed Mar 12, 2014 as application 14/207,058 · Granted Nov 7, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Oct 10, 2008
Oct 10, 2008
Term ends
Oct 10, 2028
Oct 10, 2028
Granted
Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
12
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 10, 2008, when application 12/249,252, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 12, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 10, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 10, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,486,114 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 8,679,122 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,775,657 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,237,910 | In force Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
| US 9,241,748 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,237,913 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 9,808,297 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 9,421,050 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2017 Reel 43424, frame 652 | Bernstein, Oren S.; Gillard, Joel; Thorsell, Eric; Russi, Sara; Loucks, Kyle A.; Seykora, Andrew W. | Acute Innovations LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2024 Reel 67109, frame 145 | Acute Innovations LLC | Acumed LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 10, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
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.
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