Term ended Sep 2, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 4, 2023
Filed Nov 4, 2003 as application 10/701,335 · Granted Jun 24, 2008
Base term plus 668 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 2, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Nov 4, 2003
Nov 4, 2003
Term ended
Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025
Granted
Jun 24, 2008
Jun 24, 2008
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
668
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
39
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 668 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Nov 4, 2003, when this application, 10/701,335, was filed | Nov 4, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +668 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 2, 2025 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,166,114 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
| Application 10/655,922 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,392,076 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 7,873,400 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 7,567,833 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 7,657,298 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 7,742,802 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,290,570 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
8 of 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2004 Reel 15095, frame 816 | De La Barrera, Jose Luis Moctezuma | Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 23, 2015 Reel 37152, frame 910 | Stryker Leibinger GmbH & Co. KG | Stryker European Holdings VI, LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Nov 23, 2015 Reel 37153, frame 391 | Stryker European Holdings VI, LLC | Stryker European Holdings I, LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 7, 2020 Reel 52860, frame 716 | Stryker European Holdings III, LLC | Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC | Change of Name |
| Jun 7, 2020 Reel 52861, frame 1 | Stryker European Holdings I, LLC | Stryker European Holdings III, LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Dec 18, 2024 Reel 69730, frame 754 | Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC | Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC | Change of Address |
Sources
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Note
The 668 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
526
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
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