Device and Method for Securing Body Tissue

US 9,980,717 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed May 29, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by P Tech, LLC

Filed Jun 18, 2015 as application 14/743,189 · Granted May 29, 2018

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 174 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed May 29, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Feb 21, 2006

No longer in force
May 29, 2026

Granted
May 29, 2018

Term would have run to
Aug 14, 2026

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

174

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,089,323, to Aug 14, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

1 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.

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 Feb 21, 2006, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 18, 2015)	Feb 21, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+174 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 14, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,089,323)	resolves to Aug 14, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed May 29, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 29, 2026	High confidence

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

Device and Method for Securing Body Tissue

Lapsed May 29, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

20-year base term ended Feb 21, 2026

How we calculated this date

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