Term ends May 27, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 31, 2035
Held by Nicoventures Trading Limited
Filed Jul 21, 2021 as application 17/443,170 · Granted Jan 7, 2025
Base term plus 666 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2015
Jul 31, 2015
Term ends
May 27, 2037
May 27, 2037
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Jan 7, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
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
666
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 runs 666 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 31, 2015, when application PCT/GB2015/052212, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 21, 2021) | Jul 31, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +666 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 27, 2037 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 27, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,278,427 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,674,771 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 11,116,919 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,186,479 | this patent May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,865,248 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,642,925 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 12,521,501 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,527,925 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2023 Reel 63744, frame 837 | Buchberger, Helmut | Batmark Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 24, 2023 Reel 63744, frame 927 | Batmark Limited | Nicoventures Trading Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2037
Term ends May 27, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 666 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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