Term ends May 17, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 17, 2027
Held by Mary Kay Inc.
Filed Sep 13, 2023 as application 18/367,713 · Granted Apr 29, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
May 17, 2007
May 17, 2007
Term ends
May 17, 2027
May 17, 2027
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,793,737, to May 17, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 May 17, 2007, when application 11/749,869, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 13, 2023) | May 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,793,737) | resolves to May 17, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 17, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,932,417 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,258,121 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,431,731 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,375,391 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 10,045,921 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 16/032,596 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,793,737 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 12,285,509 | this patent May 2027 | May 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2023 Reel 64890, frame 861 | Mentlik, Anton A.; Swanzy, James | Mary Kay Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends May 17, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,793,737, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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