Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 28, 2020 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ended Apr 26, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 27, 2024
Held by NuVasive, Inc.
Filed Feb 27, 2004 as application 10/789,134 · Granted Dec 30, 2008
Base term plus 424 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 26, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2004
Feb 27, 2004
Term ended
Apr 26, 2025
Apr 26, 2025
Granted
Dec 30, 2008
Dec 30, 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
424
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.
329
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 424 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 Feb 27, 2004, when this application, 10/789,134, was filed | Feb 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +424 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 26, 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 | Apr 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,716,214 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,137,386 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 7,160,300 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 7,470,279 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2004/010447 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,662,175 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 8,052,724 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2004/031860 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 329 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2020 Reel 51525, frame 380 | Jackson, Roger P., MD | NuVasive, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2020 Reel 52918, frame 595 | NuVasive, Inc.; NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc.; NuVasive Clinical Services, Inc.; NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 424 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
127
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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