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Term ends Oct 13, 2037 · High confidence

Held by Genetec Inc.
Filed Dec 14, 2021 as application 17/550,056 · Granted Sep 12, 2023
Base term plus 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2017
Term ends
Oct 13, 2037
Granted
Sep 12, 2023
base term 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
11
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,991,397.
0 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.
7
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 runs 11 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 13, 2017, when application PCT/CA2017/051217, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 14, 2021)Oct 13, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+11 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 24, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,991,397)capped to Oct 13, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 13, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,991,397In force
Oct 2037
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US 12,555,609In force
Sep 2039
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US 11,232,817In force
Oct 2037
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US 11,756,587this patent
Oct 2037
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US 12,087,330In force
Oct 2037
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Application 19/450,939Pending
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6 of 7 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 16, 2021
Reel 58407, frame 948
Michaud, Francis; Nadeau, Mathieu; Doyon, JonathanGenetec Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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