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Method and Devices for Implantation of Biologic Constructs

US 9,878,141 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 30, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 19, 2013 as application 14/084,521 · Granted Jan 30, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 55 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 30, 2026
2011 2031
Clock starts
Apr 15, 2011
No longer in force
Jan 30, 2026
Granted
Jan 30, 2018
Term would have run to
Jun 9, 2031
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
55
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.
11
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 Jun 9, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 55 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 15, 2011, when application 13/088,327, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 19, 2013)Apr 15, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+55 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 9, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 30, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 30, 2026High confidence

This family

US 8,585,773In force
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US 9,878,141this patent
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US 10,278,801In force
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US 10,307,238In force
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US 11,185,402In force
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US 11,872,117In force
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US 11,992,396In force
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8 of 11 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
May 22, 2014
Reel 32951, frame 450
Kucklick, Theodore RCannuflow, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 26, 2020
Reel 53599, frame 258
Cannuflow, Inc.Smith & Nephew, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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