Collateral for a security interest recorded May 21, 2021 (Owl Rock Capital Corporation).
Term ends Mar 17, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 12, 2025
Held by Conair LLC
Filed Nov 12, 2005 as application 11/270,927 · Granted Nov 18, 2008
Base term plus 490 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Nov 12, 2005
Nov 12, 2005
Term ends
Mar 17, 2027
Mar 17, 2027
Granted
Nov 18, 2008
Nov 18, 2008
base term
patent term adjustment
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
490
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.
2
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 490 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 12, 2005, when this application, 11/270,927, was filed | Nov 12, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +490 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 17, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 17, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US D535,668 | Term ended Jan 2021 | Jan 2021 |
| US 7,451,613 | this patent Mar 2027 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2006 Reel 17241, frame 67 | Barraclough, James R; Leung, Chi Wah; Hu, Zhi He | Conair Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2021 Reel 57216, frame 11 | Conair Corporation | Conair LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2021 Reel 56336, frame 98 | Conair LLC | Owl Rock Capital Corporation, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| May 21, 2021 Reel 56336, frame 230 | Conair LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2027
Term ends Mar 17, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 490 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
84
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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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