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Patient Positioning Support Structure

US 7,565,708 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 28, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 20, 2007 as application 11/788,513 · Granted Jul 28, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 28, 2021
2005 2026
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2005
No longer in force
Jul 28, 2021
Granted
Jul 28, 2009
Term would have run to
Feb 22, 2025
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
66
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Feb 22, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 22, 2005, when application 11/062,775, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 20, 2007)Feb 22, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 28, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 28, 2021High confidence

This family

US 7,152,261Term ended
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US 7,343,635Term ended
Oct 2025
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Application PCT/US2005/032550PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,565,708this patent
Jul 2021
Jul 2021
Application PCT/US2007/011056PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,060,960Term ended
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
US 9,186,291Term ended
Jul 2025
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US 8,707,484Term ended
Feb 2026
Feb 2026
8 of 66 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 7, 2012
Reel 28737, frame 584
Guerra, Lawrence E.Jackson, Roger P., M.D.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 27, 2018
Reel 45470, frame 425
Jackson, Roger P.Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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