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Deformable Fastener System

US 9,814,453 Term ended
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Term ended Oct 5, 2025 · High confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Dec 22, 2025.

Held by P Tech, LLC
Filed Apr 26, 2013 as application 13/871,892 · Granted Nov 14, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 5, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Oct 5, 2005
Term ended
Oct 5, 2025
Granted
Nov 14, 2017
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
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30
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 5, 2005, when application 11/202,294, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 26, 2013)Oct 5, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Dec 22, 2025, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 5, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,463,012Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2024
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Application 11/258,795Abandoned
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US 9,173,647Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2023
Nov 2023
Application 12/576,992Abandoned
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US 10,813,764Term ended
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
Application PCT/US2010/052018PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,814,453this patent
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
US 9,867,706Term ended
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 31, 2014
Reel 34606, frame 178
Bonutti, Peter; Phillips, GlenP Tech, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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